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UK
/ɛkspˈɛndəbəl/
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[ US /ɪkˈspɛndəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspɛndəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- suitable to be expended
-
(used of funds) remaining after taxes
spendable income
How To Use expendable In A Sentence
- Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
- They were weak, expendable with relatively little power in the committee structure.
- These institutions were "industrial schools" "reformatories" and "orphanages"; in other words, the children were considered outcasts and, therefore, expendable. No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History
- The group was seen as inferior and therefore expendable.
- The remote-controlled vehicle is designed to be expendable, carries its own warhead, and uses cheaper components.
- It used to be that the Vice President was expendable, relatively unimportant and rather decorative.
- Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
- The very cultures that men have built, he says, have considered males more "expendable" than women. Testosterone Put to the Test
- One of his problems as a player is an abundance of expendable energy that he only knows how to use while on the basketball court - he's ‘too amped up,’ as he describes it.
- The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology. Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down