Associations to the word «Expendable»

Wiktionary

EXPENDABLE, adjective. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
EXPENDABLE, adjective. Designed for a single use; not reusable.
EXPENDABLE, adjective. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
EXPENDABLE, adjective. That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
EXPENDABLE, noun. An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

Dictionary definition

EXPENDABLE, adjective. Suitable to be expended.
EXPENDABLE, adjective. (used of funds) remaining after taxes; "spendable income".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats