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单词 expendable
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Definition of expendable in English:

expendable

adjective ɛkˈspɛndəb(ə)lɪkˈspɛndəb(ə)lɪkˈspɛndəb(ə)l
  • 1Of relatively little significance, and therefore able to be abandoned or destroyed.

    the region is expendable in the wider context of national politics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The main victims were overwhelmingly ill-educated working-class boys and therefore expendable.
    • The harsh reality of military life is that the guy would have to be someone relatively expendable.
    • Political pundits knew that he was politically expendable, but few expected him to be expended so quickly.
    • She could have at least made an effort at candidness, but Mike reckoned once you'd been to the other side, sincerity was an expendable commodity.
    • These points appear to have been manufactured with expediency, and they were therefore likely expendable.
    • What makes some art expendable and some art permanent?
    • The group was seen as inferior and therefore expendable.
    • Therefore, we were expendable and they made sure we knew it.
    • Sure, people will see movies regardless of a reviewer's opinion, but this does not make critics expendable, as you infer in your letter.
    • To treat the resultant civilian casualties as ‘regrettable but inevitable’ is to regard innocent lives as expendable.
    • Jacob knew he was expendable once he was inside the container.
    • In this scandalous era, savvy operatives like him are expendable.
    • They were weak, expendable with relatively little power in the committee structure.
    • Once the film has killed off all its expendable characters, it spends far too much time trying to explain the source of the evil cell phones.
    • We are expendable pawns in a political chess game, and we resent the very real damage they do to us every single day.
    • It used to be that the Vice President was expendable, relatively unimportant and rather decorative.
    • Coaches are often treated as utterly expendable.
    • Millions of people - who have suffered decades of war and sanctions - are once again used as expendable stakes in an imperial gambit by the rich and powerful.
    • Where he may have erred is in adding the stress and strain of another job when others could have carried it out just as well, others who were, perhaps, more expendable.
    • Both were more or less expendable from his point of view.
    Synonyms
    dispensable, able to be sacrificed, replaceable
    non-essential, inessential, not essential, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded, not required
    superfluous, extraneous
    disposable
    disposable, throwaway, one use, single-use, replaceable
    1. 1.1 (of an object) designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
      unmanned and expendable launch vehicles
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The orbital space plane will initially launch on an expendable vehicle and provide rescue capability for at least four crew members.
      • Just a few miles away, the company works on another expendable launch vehicle - the Delta IV.
      • Because it was easier to adapt existing military missiles, which are designed for a single flight, most launchers have been expendable.
      • As disastrous as the space shuttle destruction was, it resulted in reviving America's expendable launch vehicle industry.
      • If the launching vehicle is an expendable rocket, the process is somewhat less complex.
      • One of the most important decisions to be made is whether Europe's new launchers will be expendable or reusable.
      • The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.
      • The vast majority is taken by expendable launch vehicles.
      • If approved, the telescope mission could be ready for launch in 2014, on board a large expendable rocket.
      • Which type of launcher can best meet these criteria: expendable or reusable?
      • It was not supposed to do anything that an expendable launcher would not do.
      • Since January, eight spacecraft were deployed on seven expendable launch vehicles.
      • This forced commercial satellites onto expendable launch vehicles, which had a higher risk of failure than the relatively safe shuttle.
      • The workshop will address system studies and technology developments for future European expendable launchers and reusable launch vehicles.
      • Is it more economical and practical to have reusable launchers or low-cost expendable launchers?
      • The remote-controlled vehicle is designed to be expendable, carries its own warhead, and uses cheaper components.
      • Most are expendable packages attached to helium or hydrogen-filled weather balloons and only a small number of the sensors are retrieved.
      • Under the hood, all original T-Bird parts were used in the restorations except for expendable items like the carburetor and the battery.
      • He argued that expendable vehicles are already called upon to launch high-value unmanned payloads.

Derivatives

  • expendability

  • nounɛkspɛndəˈbɪlɪtiɪkspɛndəˈbɪlɪtiɪkˌspɛndəˈbɪlədi
    • The expendability of the Steel City's injured workers did not mean that all were merely tossed aside and forgotten.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I only once saw him without his stiff white detachable collar: at once a symbol of perpetual elegance and expendability.
      • Missions for unmanned vehicles will gravitate toward those compatible with their primary strengths - persistence, expendability and stealth.
      • In this sense, their very dependability was linked with their expendability.
      • As hard as expendability is on workers themselves, increased productivity is the way progress is made.
  • expendably

  • adverb
 
 

Definition of expendable in US English:

expendable

adjectiveikˈspendəb(ə)lɪkˈspɛndəb(ə)l
  • 1Of little significance when compared to an overall purpose, and therefore able to be abandoned.

    the region is expendable in the wider context of national politics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The harsh reality of military life is that the guy would have to be someone relatively expendable.
    • Millions of people - who have suffered decades of war and sanctions - are once again used as expendable stakes in an imperial gambit by the rich and powerful.
    • Political pundits knew that he was politically expendable, but few expected him to be expended so quickly.
    • Coaches are often treated as utterly expendable.
    • Both were more or less expendable from his point of view.
    • Therefore, we were expendable and they made sure we knew it.
    • These points appear to have been manufactured with expediency, and they were therefore likely expendable.
    • Once the film has killed off all its expendable characters, it spends far too much time trying to explain the source of the evil cell phones.
    • The main victims were overwhelmingly ill-educated working-class boys and therefore expendable.
    • To treat the resultant civilian casualties as ‘regrettable but inevitable’ is to regard innocent lives as expendable.
    • They were weak, expendable with relatively little power in the committee structure.
    • The group was seen as inferior and therefore expendable.
    • Sure, people will see movies regardless of a reviewer's opinion, but this does not make critics expendable, as you infer in your letter.
    • Where he may have erred is in adding the stress and strain of another job when others could have carried it out just as well, others who were, perhaps, more expendable.
    • We are expendable pawns in a political chess game, and we resent the very real damage they do to us every single day.
    • Jacob knew he was expendable once he was inside the container.
    • In this scandalous era, savvy operatives like him are expendable.
    • She could have at least made an effort at candidness, but Mike reckoned once you'd been to the other side, sincerity was an expendable commodity.
    • What makes some art expendable and some art permanent?
    • It used to be that the Vice President was expendable, relatively unimportant and rather decorative.
    Synonyms
    dispensable, able to be sacrificed, replaceable
    disposable, throwaway, one use, single-use, replaceable
    1. 1.1 (of an object) designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
      the need for unmanned and expendable launch vehicles
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The orbital space plane will initially launch on an expendable vehicle and provide rescue capability for at least four crew members.
      • Just a few miles away, the company works on another expendable launch vehicle - the Delta IV.
      • It was not supposed to do anything that an expendable launcher would not do.
      • The remote-controlled vehicle is designed to be expendable, carries its own warhead, and uses cheaper components.
      • As disastrous as the space shuttle destruction was, it resulted in reviving America's expendable launch vehicle industry.
      • Most are expendable packages attached to helium or hydrogen-filled weather balloons and only a small number of the sensors are retrieved.
      • Since January, eight spacecraft were deployed on seven expendable launch vehicles.
      • The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.
      • One of the most important decisions to be made is whether Europe's new launchers will be expendable or reusable.
      • Is it more economical and practical to have reusable launchers or low-cost expendable launchers?
      • If approved, the telescope mission could be ready for launch in 2014, on board a large expendable rocket.
      • Which type of launcher can best meet these criteria: expendable or reusable?
      • The workshop will address system studies and technology developments for future European expendable launchers and reusable launch vehicles.
      • Under the hood, all original T-Bird parts were used in the restorations except for expendable items like the carburetor and the battery.
      • This forced commercial satellites onto expendable launch vehicles, which had a higher risk of failure than the relatively safe shuttle.
      • Because it was easier to adapt existing military missiles, which are designed for a single flight, most launchers have been expendable.
      • He argued that expendable vehicles are already called upon to launch high-value unmanned payloads.
      • If the launching vehicle is an expendable rocket, the process is somewhat less complex.
      • The vast majority is taken by expendable launch vehicles.
 
 
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