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noun
- An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
- Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an , since he was always picked as point man.
adjective
- Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
- Oil and other resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
- Designed for a single use; not reusable.
- The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an launch platform.
- Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
- The research department was deemed , and its funding was not renewed.
- That which is regarded as not worth preserve, preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
- In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become in the execution of one executive's power play.
Translations: Etymology: From Latin expendere + -able
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