expendable

  1. Adjective.  Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
  2. Adjective.  Designed for a single use; not reusable.
  3. Adjective.  Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
  4. Adjective.  That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
  5. Noun.  An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

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