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Nonexpendable vs. Expendable — What's the Difference?

Nonexpendable vs. Expendable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Nonexpendable and Expendable

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Nonexpendable

Not expendable.

Expendable

Expendable is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner, published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints. It is the first book in a series involving the "League of Peoples", an assemblage of advanced species in the Milky Way galaxy.

Expendable

Subject to use or consumption
An expendable source.

Expendable

Not worth salvaging or reusing
Expendable rocket boosters.

Expendable

Not strictly necessary; dispensable
An expendable budget item.
Expendable personnel.
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Expendable

Open to sacrifice in the interests of gaining an objective, especially a military one
Expendable civilian targets.

Expendable

Something expendable.

Expendable

Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.

Expendable

Designed for a single use; not reusable.
The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.

Expendable

Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.

Expendable

Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.

Expendable

An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.

Expendable

Suitable to be expended

Expendable

(used of funds) remaining after taxes;
Spendable income

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