expendable
Adjective
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Adjective
expendable
- Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
- Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
- Designed for a single use; not reusable.
- The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
- Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
- The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
- Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
- In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
- (not inexhaustible): exhaustible, finite, limited
- (not reusable): dispensable, disposable, throwaway
- (not essential or mandatory): adjunct, dispensable, redundant, superfluous
- (not worth saving or preserving): collateral, inconsiderable, sacrificable, worthless
- French: consommable
- German: entbehrlich, austauschbar
- Portuguese: esgotável
- Russian: невозобновляемый
- Spanish: agotable
- French: jetable
- German: nicht wiederverwertbar
- Portuguese: descartável
- Russian: одноразовый
- Spanish: desechable
- French: facultatif
- German: verzichtbar, entbehrlich
- Russian: необязательный
- Spanish: prescindible
- French: sacrifiable
- German: verzichtbar, aufgebbar
- Portuguese: sacrificável
- Russian: расходный
- Spanish: sacrificable
expendable (plural expendables)
- An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
- Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.
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