expendable
adjective
1. suitable to be expended
Similar word(s): consumable, sacrificeable, replaceable
2. (used of funds) remaining after taxes
Similar word(s): disposable, spendable
3. regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
4. not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
Sentences with expendable as an adjective:
- Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
- The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
- The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
- In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
noun
1. 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.