expendable

Speech parts

1. expendable - Noun

2. expendable - Adjective

3. expendable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

(used of funds) remaining after taxes

suitable to be expended

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

needless limited finite redundant collateral disposable worthless adjunct superfluous extraneous replaceable consumable dispensable nonessential unnecessary
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Antonyms

must necessary needed obligatory prerequisite reusable
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Phrases with the word

expendable characters expendable material expendable pawns expendable soldiers expendable income expendable launch vehicle

Examples

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way. Ani DiFranco

Conceiving the defense of freedom, like freedom itself, to be one and indivisible, we hold all continents and peoples in equal regard and honor. We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another, is in any sense inferior or expendable. Dwight D. Eisenhower

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. Jimmy Reid

I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable. Zell Miller

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. Harry S. Truman

some men know from birth that they are expendable... they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either. Alice Borchardt

Close letter words and terms

expencive expend expendability expendable characters expendable income expendable launch vehicle