Čo znamená expendable v angličtine a aká je definícia expendable?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť expendable výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

expendable Význam & definícia

0 If someone or something is expendable, people can do something or deal with a situation without them:
- No one likes to think that they're expendable.
1 not worth keeping or no longer useful:
- He was considered expendable and dropped from the team.
2 not completely necessary for success or continuing in business:
- In today's tough labor climate, individual workers are expendable.
- It seems he has become an expendable asset at the company.
3 expendable supplies are things that are used in a business that have little value:
- expendable items/goods/supplies
4 made to be used up or worn out over time:
- The one year parts and labor warranty excludes expendable parts such as batteries, springs, and filters.

Given that such features are "functionally expendable," they will not be found in pidgin languages, which are "expressedly designed for only basic communication" (p. 15).
Having an employed population with expendable income may have a multiplier effect, encouraging increased exchange throughout the district.
However, as labor and capital opportunities changed, land became for some an expendable commodity.
This was more than an opportunistic exploitation of a convenient, but ultimately expendable, resource.
Musical spatiality, though always present, is not always crucial for the understanding of this art in which spatial relationships may be (and have been) expendable.
Passives of unaccusatives are fully expendable in every account that allows them, since they are merely accommodated by generalized passive rules or constraints.
A collection of various interchangeable and expendable gizmos, the house included inflatable beds and chairs that doubled as hovercrafts and multi-purpose robots that could distinguish between flavours of canned soup.
They are conspicuous for their expendable ad hoc mechanisms, which multiply to accommodate existing feedback effects, and other classes of findings, such as ubiquitous strategy effects.