0 If someone or something is expendable, people can do something or deal with a situation without them. -- 可有可無的；無關緊要的；不必要的
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.
