Expendable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Subject to use or consumption: an expendable source.
  • adj. Not worth salvaging or reusing: expendable rocket boosters.
  • adj. Not strictly necessary; dispensable: an expendable budget item; expendable personnel.
  • adj. Open to sacrifice in the interests of gaining an objective, especially a military one: expendable civilian targets.
  • n. Something expendable.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
  • adj. Designed for a single use; not reusable.
  • adj. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
  • adj. That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
  • n. An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • That can be expended or consumed by use: as, articles expendable and not expendable.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. suitable to be expended
  • adj. (used of funds) remaining after taxes
    • Equivalent
    consumable    sacrificeable    disposable   
    Form
    expendability    expendably   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    amendable    commendable    dependable    extendable    spendable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reusable    nonexpendable    unman    extensible    disposable   
     
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