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expendable

/ik-spen-duh-buhl/US // ɪkˈspɛn də bəl //UK // (ɪkˈspɛndəbəl) //

消耗性的,消耗性,消耗品,消耗性物质

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being expended.
    • : consumed in use or not reusable.
    • : considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
    • : Military. capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually expendables. an expendable person or thing.

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Examples

  • The Air Force prefers “attritable” to “expendable,” but what makes a swarm work is that parts of it can be lost and the mission will still be completed.

  • The lives and futures of LGBTQ youth are not expendable, and it’s time that they stop being treated as such.

  • Drivers have no rights and there are in excess so expendable.

  • The Falcon 9 second stage is expendable, which is the space term for essentially just junk that’s discarded and eventually de-orbits and burns up on reentry.

  • Answering the threat of anti-air missiles is just one possible use for plane-launched more-expendable drones.

  • Because when it comes to The Expendables franchise, no plot is expendable.

  • “They (critics of reform) think these people are expendable,” says Simpson.

  • To put it bluntly: it often leads to making everything else a secondary—that is, expendable—issue.

  • The real danger lies in the implication that the freedom and dignity of Jews in the diaspora is somewhat of an expendable asset.

  • "As a result, he treats workers as expendable resources without taking into account their contributions," Stone writes.

  • Government property is considered expendable or non-expendable depending upon its character.

  • Meanwhile I shall study your sales tapes concerning the non-expendable flitters.

  • From a practical standpoint, however, anything that James contracted for was expendable and of vital necessity.

  • He's taking the rap for another man because he knows that he is expendable and the other man isn't.

  • Furthermore, there seems to be some non-expendable items that can't be accounted for, a couple of major items among them.