Expendable

Adjective

 * 1) Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
 * Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
 * 1) Designed for a single use; not reusable.
 * The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
 * 1) Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
 * The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
 * 1) That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
 * In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.

Synonyms

 * (not inexhaustible): exhaustible, finite, limited
 * (not reusable): dispensable, disposable, throwaway
 * (not essential or mandatory): adjunct, dispensable, redundant, superfluous
 * (not worth saving or preserving): collateral, inconsiderable, sacrificable, worthless

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.

Derived terms

 * expendability
 * expendably

Thesaurus
consumable, de trop, dispensable, disposable, excess, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, insignificant, needless, no-deposit, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, replaceable, spare, spendable, substitutable, supererogatory, superfluous, supersedable, tautologic, tautologous, throwaway, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose

Etymology
From Latin expendere + -able

Adjective

 * Finnish: ehtyvä
 * Manx: yn-vaarail, yn-cheau


 * Portuguese: esgotável
 * Russian: невозобновляемый


 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese: descartável


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 * Czech:


 * Czech: obětovatelný
 * Finnish: uhrattavissa oleva


 * Portuguese: sacrificável
 * Russian: расходный, расходуемый