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EXPENDABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does expendable mean?
• EXPENDABLE (adjective)
The adjective EXPENDABLE has 2 senses:
1. suitable to be expended
2. (used of funds) remaining after taxes
Familiarity information: EXPENDABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suitable to be expended
Similar:
consumable (may be used up)
sacrificeable (may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective)
Also:
replaceable (capable of being replaced)
Antonym:
unexpendable (not suitable to be expended)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used of funds) remaining after taxes
Synonyms:
expendable; spendable
Context example:
spendable income
Similar:
disposable (free or available for use or disposition)
Context examples
After reaching a suborbital altitude, the plane would launch an expendable upper stage that would be able to push a satellite into orbit.
(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)
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