Expendable
WordNet

adjective


(1)   (used of funds) remaining after taxes
"Spendable income"
(2)   Suitable to be expended
WiktionaryText

Adjective



  1. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
    Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
  2. Designed for a single use; not reusable.
    The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
  3. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
    The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
  4. That which is 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.

Synonyms

  • (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

Noun



  1. 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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