"expendable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-expendable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more expendable [comparative], most expendable [superlative]
Etymology: expend + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|expend|able}} expend + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} expendable (comparative more expendable, superlative most expendable)
  1. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. Synonyms (not inexhaustible): exhaustible, finite, limited Translations (able to be expended): потребляем (potrebljaem) (Bulgarian), ehtyvä (Finnish), rajallinen (Finnish), consommable [feminine, masculine] (French), entbehrlich (German), austauschbar (German), αναλώσιμος (analósimos) (Greek), yn-vaarail (Manx), yn-cheau (Manx), esgotável (Portuguese), невозобновляемый (nevozobnovljajemyj) (Russian), so-chaitheamh (Scottish Gaelic), agotable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-expendable-en-adj-j6aNiA~z Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 39 7 21 27 7 Disambiguation of 'not inexhaustible': 56 10 19 14 Disambiguation of 'able to be expended': 83 2 1 14
  2. Designed for a single use; not reusable. Synonyms (not reusable): dispensable, disposable, throwaway Translations (designed for a single use): за еднократна употреба (za ednokratna upotreba) (Bulgarian), d'un sol ús (Catalan), kertakäyttöinen (Finnish), kertakäyttö- (Finnish), jetable [feminine, masculine] (French), nicht wiederverwertbar (German), descartável (Portuguese), одноразовый (odnorazovyj) (Russian), so-chaitheamh (Scottish Gaelic), desechable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-expendable-en-adj-xFtA6Ifv Disambiguation of 'not reusable': 12 57 17 13 Disambiguation of 'designed for a single use': 2 94 2 2
  3. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal. Synonyms (not essential or mandatory): adjunct, dispensable, redundant, superfluous Translations (not essential or mandatory): маловажен (malovažen) (Bulgarian), prescindible (Catalan), postradatelný (Czech), epäolennainen (Finnish), facultatif [masculine] (French), verzichtbar (German), entbehrlich (German), необязательный (neobjazatelʹnyj) (Russian), so-chaitheamh (Scottish Gaelic), prescindible (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-expendable-en-adj-ajKfiB7e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 10 37 18 15 Disambiguation of 'not essential or mandatory': 14 14 58 15 Disambiguation of 'not essential or mandatory': 14 14 58 15
  4. Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed. Synonyms (not worth saving or preserving): collateral, inconsiderable, sacrificable, worthless Translations (not worth preserving or saving): prescindible (Catalan), sacrificable (Catalan), obětovatelný (Czech), uhrattavissa oleva (Finnish), arvoton (Finnish), sacrifiable [feminine, masculine] (French), verzichtbar (German), aufgebbar (German), sacrificável (Portuguese), расходный (rasxodnyj) (Russian), расходуемый (rasxodujemyj) (Russian), so-chaitheamh (Scottish Gaelic), sacrificable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-expendable-en-adj-XgvM-fk1 Disambiguation of 'not worth saving or preserving': 16 16 20 48 Disambiguation of 'not worth preserving or saving': 13 13 17 57

Noun

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-expendable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: expendables [plural]
Etymology: expend + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|expend|able}} expend + -able Head templates: {{en-noun}} expendable (plural expendables)
  1. An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural. Derived forms: expendability, expendably Translations (expendable person or object): kertakäyttötavara (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-expendable-en-noun-6B1APdZS

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        {
          "text": "The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.",
          "type": "example"
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      "glosses": [
        "Designed for a single use; not reusable."
      ],
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        [
          "single",
          "single"
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          "reusable",
          "reusable"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "essential",
          "essential"
        ],
        [
          "mandatory",
          "mandatory"
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          "achieve"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69",
          "text": "The Taunton-Minehead line (now managed by the West Somerset Railway) was considered much more expendable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "worth",
          "worth"
        ],
        [
          "preserving",
          "preserve"
        ],
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "not inexhaustible",
      "word": "exhaustible"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not inexhaustible",
      "word": "finite"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not inexhaustible",
      "word": "limited"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not reusable",
      "word": "dispensable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not reusable",
      "word": "disposable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not reusable",
      "word": "throwaway"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "adjunct"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "dispensable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "redundant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "superfluous"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not worth saving or preserving",
      "word": "collateral"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not worth saving or preserving",
      "word": "inconsiderable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not worth saving or preserving",
      "word": "sacrificable"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not worth saving or preserving",
      "word": "worthless"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potrebljaem",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "потребляем"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "ehtyvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "rajallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "consommable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "entbehrlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "austauschbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "analósimos",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "αναλώσιμος"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "yn-vaarail"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "yn-cheau"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "esgotável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nevozobnovljajemyj",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "невозобновляемый"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "so-chaitheamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "able to be expended",
      "word": "agotable"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "za ednokratna upotreba",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "за еднократна употреба"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "d'un sol ús"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "kertakäyttöinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "kertakäyttö-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jetable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "nicht wiederverwertbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "descartável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odnorazovyj",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "одноразовый"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "so-chaitheamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "designed for a single use",
      "word": "desechable"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "malovažen",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "маловажен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "prescindible"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "postradatelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "epäolennainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "facultatif"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "verzichtbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "entbehrlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neobjazatelʹnyj",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "необязательный"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "so-chaitheamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not essential or mandatory",
      "word": "prescindible"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "prescindible"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "sacrificable"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "obětovatelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "uhrattavissa oleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "arvoton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sacrifiable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "verzichtbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "aufgebbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "sacrificável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasxodnyj",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "расходный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasxodujemyj",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "расходуемый"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "so-chaitheamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not worth preserving or saving",
      "word": "sacrificable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "expendable"
}

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    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -able",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "expendability"
    },
    {
      "word": "expendably"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "expend",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "expend + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "expend + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "expendables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "expendable (plural expendables)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "#Adjective"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "expendable person or object",
      "word": "kertakäyttötavara"
    }
  ],
  "word": "expendable"
}

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