Usually means: Can be sacrificed if necessary.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word expendable:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. expendable: Merriam-Webster
  2. expendable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expendable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expendable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expendable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expendable, expendable: Wordnik
  7. expendable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expendable: Wiktionary
  9. expendable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expendable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expendable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expendable: Dictionary.com
  13. expendable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expendable (disambiguation), Expendable (short story), Expendable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. expendable: Rhymezone
  16. expendable: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expendable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expendable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. expendable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. EXPENDABLE: Accounting Glossary
  3. expendable: Legal dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expendable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
adjective:  Designed for a single use; not reusable.
adjective:  Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
adjective:  Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
noun:  An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

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