Sekirov Dictionary

expendable

/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

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

noun1

•
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.

forms

expendables · more expendable · most expendable

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