0 If someone or something is expendable, people can do something or deal with a situation without them: --
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: --
3 expendable supplies are things that are used in a business that have little value: --
We are still looking at a time when labour was an expendable commodity.
We feel that no nation is expendable, and this is why we are speaking out now.
Migration is the by-product of global capitalism that sees people not as human beings, but as factors of production that are expendable.
When some of our fellow creatures may be regarded as subhuman, there is a tendency to regard them as more readily expendable.
That cheapens human life, and treats it as no more than expendable raw material.
The cognitive and behavioural characteristics and qualities of these animals are such that it is unethical to treat them as expendable for research.
This, of course, will allow them to be considered as 'expendable', unlike the current manned helicopers which cost around £10 m each.
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.
