Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable...
During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.
...an expendable rocket.
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expendable — ex‧pend‧a‧ble [ɪkˈspendəbl] adjective ACCOUNTING expendable supplies or items are ones of little value. Companies do not have to keep records of who has expendable items, and what they are being used for * * * expendable UK US /ɪkˈspendəbl/… … Financial and business terms
expendable — [ek spen′də bəl, ikspen′də bəl] adj. 1. that can be expended 2. Mil. designating or of equipment or personnel considered worth sacrificing to achieve an objective 3. designating or of a person or thing regarded as worth sacrificing under… … English World dictionary
expendable — I adjective accessory, added, additional, auxiliary, dispensable, disposable, duplicate, excess, excessive, expletive, extra, extraneous, functionless, futile, gratuitous, impotent, inapplicable, inconsequential, ineffectual, inessential,… … Law dictionary
expendable — 1805, from EXPEND (Cf. expend) + ABLE (Cf. able) … Etymology dictionary
expendable — [adj] not important dispensable, disposable, excess, inessential, nonessential, replaceable, superfluous, unimportant; concepts 546,575 Ant. important, indispensable, necessary, useful … New thesaurus
expendable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) suitable to be used once only; not worth preserving. 2) able to be sacrificed because of little significance when compared to an overall purpose. DERIVATIVES expendability noun expendably adverb … English terms dictionary
Expendable — This article is about James Alan Gardner s science fiction novel. For the video game, see . For the Philip K. Dick short story, see Expendable (short story).infobox Book | name = Expendable title orig = translator = author = James Alan Gardner… … Wikipedia
expendable — 1. adjective a) Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes. b) Designed for a single use; not reusable. The anti ai … Wiktionary
expendable — I. adjective Date: 1805 that may be expended: as a. normally used up or consumed in service < expendable supplies like pencils and paper > b. more easily or economically replaced than rescued, salvaged, or protected • expendability noun II. noun… … New Collegiate Dictionary
expendable — ex|pend|a|ble [ ık spendəbl ] adjective used for describing someone or something that you are willing to get rid of, lose, or allow to be killed because they are no longer useful or necessary: DISPENSABLE: His manager made it clear to him that he … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
