Expendable Definition

ĭk-spĕndə-bəl
adjective
Subject to use or consumption.
An expendable source.
American Heritage
That can be expended.
Webster's New World
Designating or of equipment or personnel considered worth sacrificing to achieve an objective.
Webster's New World
Not worth salvaging or reusing.
Expendable rocket boosters.
American Heritage
Not strictly necessary; dispensable.
An expendable budget item; expendable personnel.
American Heritage
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noun
A person or thing considered expendable.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • no-deposit

Other Word Forms of Expendable

Noun

Singular:
expendable
Plural:
expendables

Origin of Expendable

  • From Latin expendere + -able

    From Wiktionary

Expendable Sentence Examples

  • The bike was a trophy from a time when Dean's budget contained more expendable income.

  • All of these are considered imminently expendable by the system.

  • One who thought that human life was not expendable would have asked a question about human worth.

  • Her eyes were warm with tears and her heart racing from the unexpected confrontation with the distressed ex-deity who viewed her as expendable less than a week before.

  • It also corrals the files that tend to be large and/or expendable into one location, and simplifies disk space management for builds.

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