expendable

Plural: expendables

Adjective

• suitable to be expended

Adjective Satellite

• (used of funds) remaining after taxes

Adj

• Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
• Designed for a single use; not reusable.
• Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
• Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.

Noun

• An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

Examples

• In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
• Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
• Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.
• The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
• The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.

Synonyms

spendable, adjunct, collateral, dispensable, disposable, exhaustible, finite, inconsiderable, limited, redundant, sacrificable, superfluous, throwaway, worthless

Antonyms

unexpendable

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