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[ ik-spen-duh-buhl ] / ɪkˈspɛn də bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR expendable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecapable of being expended. (of an item of equipment or supply) consumed in use or not reusable. considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining. Military. (of personnel, equipment, or supplies) capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective. nounUsually expendables. an expendable person or thing. Origin of expendableFirst recorded in 1795–1805; expend + -able OTHER WORDS FROM expendableex·pend·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·ex·pend·a·ble, adjectiveWords nearby expendableexpellant, expellee, expeller, expellers, expend, expendable, expenditure, expense, expense account, expensive, experience Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for expendableBecause when it comes to The Expendables franchise, no plot is expendable. I Am The Hague! Sylvester Stallone's 'Expendable' Wet Dream|Amy Zimmerman|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST “They (critics of reform) think these people are expendable,” says Simpson. The Anguish of Alan Simpson, Tragic Hero of Immigration Reform|Eleanor Clift|January 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST To put it bluntly: it often leads to making everything else a secondary—that is, expendable—issue. When ‘Israel First’ Means Condoning Old-School Anti-Semitism|Anna Momigliano|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST "As a result, he treats workers as expendable resources without taking into account their contributions," Stone writes. Jeff Bezos’s Dad Was a Circus Performer and 5 More Juicy Bits From the Tell-All Book|Nina Strochlic|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Expendable money, in turn, amounts of ground organization, media buys, and, ultimately, votes. Should Gingrich and Paul Drop Out?|Daniel Stone|February 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST A commonplace: why go on worrying at it, insisting that no one is expendable? The Trial of Callista Blake|Edgar Pangborn Hoskins goes, because of all of us, the Engineer is most expendable. Breaking Point|James E. Gunn I know you hate to burn up a ship, but this one is supposed to be expendable. Unwise Child|Gordon Randall Garrett From a practical standpoint, however, anything that James contracted for was expendable and of vital necessity. The Fourth R|George Oliver Smith We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another, is in any sense inferior or expendable. United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches|Various
British Dictionary definitions for expendable
adjectivethat may be expended or used up not essential; not worth preserving able to be sacrificed to achieve an objective, esp a military one nounsomething that is expendable Derived forms of expendableexpendability, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to expendableunimportant, superfluous, disposable, dispensable, excess, nonessential, inessential, replaceable |