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発音

• IPA: /ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/

形容詞

expendable (comparative more expendable, superlative most expendable)

1. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

   Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.

2. Designed for a single use; not reusable.

   The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.

3. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.

   The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.

4. 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.

   • 1997, G. Cajetan Luna, Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident Truths, page 10:

     He was expendable, like commodities past their use.

   • 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:

     The Taunton-Minehead line (now managed by the West Somerset Railway) was considered much more expendable.

同意語

• (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

派生語

名詞

expendable (plural expendables)

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.

派生語

• expendability
• expendably