expendable: meaning and definitions

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What is expendable?

What is expendable?

  • Subject to use or consumption: an expendable source.
  • Not worth salvaging or reusing: expendable rocket boosters.
  • Not strictly necessary; dispensable: an expendable budget item; expendable personnel.
  • Open to sacrifice in the interests of gaining an objective, especially a military one: expendable civilian targets.

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