replaceable

replaceable
[[t]rɪple͟ɪsəb(ə)l[/t]]
1) ADJ If something is replaceable, you can throw it away when it is finished and put a new one in its place.

...replaceable butane gas cartridges.

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2) ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ If you say that someone is replaceable, you mean that they are not so important that someone else could not take their place.

Things would be better now. He would see I was not so easily replaceable.

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English dictionary. 2008.

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