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US
/dɪˈspɛnsəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /dɪspˈɛnsəbəl/ ]
[ UK /dɪspˈɛnsəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of being dispensed with or done without
dispensable items of personal property
How To Use dispensable In A Sentence
- And because tools were indispensable, they argued that capital was indispensable. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
- The essential and indispensable element of the nucleus is called nuclein (or caryoplasm); that of the cell body is called plastin (or cytoplasm). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
- The doctor, according to very accurate calculations, found that, including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus, he should have to carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore he had to find out what would be the ascensional force of Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The abstract ideas of which the air consists, indispensable for life, but irrespirable by themselves, as it were, and only active in their re-directing function. Pragmatism
- America is still the indispensable nation. Times, Sunday Times
- French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
- Digital scan converter (DSC) is an indispensable part in the display equipment of radar, biomedical ultra sound detector, sonar, electronic surface analyzer.
- In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable.
- For they have become the indispensable actor in world affairs. Times, Sunday Times
- Film has proved itself an indispensable Global English word, even where it no longer has anything to do with films, or “coatings” of light-sensitive emulsions applied to plastic, or coatings of any kind. The English Is Coming!