expendable — ex‧pend‧a‧ble [ɪkˈspendəbl] adjective ACCOUNTING expendable supplies or items are ones of little value. Companies do not have to keep records of who has expendable items, and what they are being used for * * * expendable UK US /ɪkˈspendəbl/… … Financial and business terms
expendable — [ek spen′də bəl, ikspen′də bəl] adj. 1. that can be expended 2. Mil. designating or of equipment or personnel considered worth sacrificing to achieve an objective 3. designating or of a person or thing regarded as worth sacrificing under… … English World dictionary
expendable — I adjective accessory, added, additional, auxiliary, dispensable, disposable, duplicate, excess, excessive, expletive, extra, extraneous, functionless, futile, gratuitous, impotent, inapplicable, inconsequential, ineffectual, inessential,… … Law dictionary
expendable — 1805, from EXPEND (Cf. expend) + ABLE (Cf. able) … Etymology dictionary
expendable — [adj] not important dispensable, disposable, excess, inessential, nonessential, replaceable, superfluous, unimportant; concepts 546,575 Ant. important, indispensable, necessary, useful … New thesaurus
expendable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) suitable to be used once only; not worth preserving. 2) able to be sacrificed because of little significance when compared to an overall purpose. DERIVATIVES expendability noun expendably adverb … English terms dictionary
Expendable — This article is about James Alan Gardner s science fiction novel. For the video game, see . For the Philip K. Dick short story, see Expendable (short story).infobox Book | name = Expendable title orig = translator = author = James Alan Gardner… … Wikipedia
expendable — [[t]ɪkspe̱ndəb(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you regard someone or something as expendable, you think it is acceptable to get rid of them, abandon them, or allow them to be destroyed when they are no longer needed. [FORMAL] Once our services cease to be … English dictionary
expendable — I. adjective Date: 1805 that may be expended: as a. normally used up or consumed in service < expendable supplies like pencils and paper > b. more easily or economically replaced than rescued, salvaged, or protected • expendability noun II. noun… … New Collegiate Dictionary
expendable — ex|pend|a|ble [ ık spendəbl ] adjective used for describing someone or something that you are willing to get rid of, lose, or allow to be killed because they are no longer useful or necessary: DISPENSABLE: His manager made it clear to him that he … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
