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expendable

adjective as in not important

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I am therefore able to use my expendable income to help out my friends with children and to populate my wardrobe with the clothes I never imagined existed when I was 20.

Like its predecessor, Ariane-5, the new model is expendable - a new rocket is needed for every mission, whereas the latest American vehicles are being built to be wholly or partially reusable.

From BBC

They and their families are expendable indentured servants on a rock enrobed in perpetual darkness.

From Salon

“That’s what I hate. Why are we coming out and killing ourselves for you, risking our lives? Why is crew being treated like we are expendable?”

Zach Wilson went 12-21 as the starter in New York and was deemed expendable with Aaron Rodgers returning from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in last season’s opener.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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