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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expendable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expendable income
▪ Everyone is expendable. No one's job is safe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eventually, he may feel parliament is expendable.
▪ In another, they are merely expendable sacrifices to national economic development.
▪ It was not like any previous architecture because it was supposed to be expendable.
▪ The city council ranks them and votes to eliminate the most expendable.
▪ The truly rich can afford the tax advice and the expendable cash flow to avoid paying cap gains taxes all together.
▪ The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy.
▪ Women were expendable birthing organisms for the glory of the family.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expendable

1805, from expend + -able.

Wiktionary
expendable

a. 1 Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. 2 Designed for a single use; not reusable. 3 Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal. 4 That which is regarded as not worth preserve or saving; able to be sacrificed. n. An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

WordNet
expendable
  1. adj. suitable to be expended [ant: unexpendable]

  2. (used of funds) remaining after taxes; "spendable income" [syn: spendable]

Wikipedia
Expendable

Expendable is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner, published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints. It is the first book in a series involving the "League of Peoples", an assemblage of advanced species in the Milky Way galaxy. There is a "sub-series" involving just the character Festima Ramos, and sometimes the female Oar.

The novel introduces many concepts in Gardner's " League of Peoples" universe, such as the Explorer Corps, Sentient Citizens, and the League itself.

Expendable (short story)

"Expendable" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1953. The plot centers on an unnamed human being caught in the middle of the ongoing, million year conflict between the degenerate descendants of the insects (Earth's original inhabitants) and humans (the invading species).

Dick later explained where the inspiration for the story came from: "I got the idea when a fly buzzed by my head one day and I imagined (paranoia indeed!) that it was laughing at me."

Expendable (disambiguation)

Expendable is a novel by James Alan Gardner.

Expendable may also refer to:

  • "Expendable" (short story), a science fiction story by Philip K. Dick
  • The Expendables (2010 film), an action film by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone
  • Millennium Soldier: Expendable, a video game

Usage examples of "expendable".

That was a minor vessel, readily expendable, though formidable enough, a hundred-meter spheroid abristle with guns, missile launchers, energy projectors.

But having got rid of the thing, Alsa was part of the past, expendable, perhaps already expended.

It meant that the equipment would be transported separately by people who were considered more expendable than the six Ampersand specialists.

If Solance did not watch his steps he would find himself becoming expendable far faster than he dreamed.

But the idea that the mage had regarded him as so expendable that he would risk his well-being soor, worse, even wished his destructiondisturbed him greatly.

Blade had definitely been taken by the enemy and Yama might not be in any danger at all, and since Blade, as the head Warrior, was less expendable than Yama, and since the Technics were en route to their facility in Green Bay where Blade might be tortured, or worse, Samson had no option.

They saw Solo as a non-stoppable, expendable weapon, manipulatable and malleable as any normal computer.

It may be an overvalued condition in most expendable slaves, but I need yours to persist awhile longer.

Choose any planetless and expendable star in this region, or any other convenient place in the Galaxy.

And I, the expert adviser on this project, will ascertain the proper day and hour by sending up expendable miniature balloons made of oiled paper.

Colonel Jina starts thinking you and our female companion are expendable.

TFN to rebuild itself after Operation Pesthouse, and to provide the entire Grand Alliance with expendable munitions which were fully interchangeable between any of its member navies.

McManis was actually one more middle-aged expendable cut adrift in another of the ruthless corporate downsizings familiar to recession America.

To hold against a determined attack would require the forward deployment of our battle-line, but this would place our slowest, most powerful, least expendable vessels far from retreat should the infidels muster sufficient firepower to break through in strength.

The one big difference was that rather than a war between orcs and humans it was a war of malignants against benigns, with humans and orcs expendable by both sides.