Definition of dispensable in English:

dispensable

adjective dɪˈspɛnsəb(ə)ldəˈspɛnsəb(ə)l

1Able to be replaced or done without; superfluous.
the captain's loss of form made him dispensable
Example sentencesExamples
- Strange as it may seem, most people, especially men with their precious egos, do not like being told that the arrogance bred into them by their proud parents is an overbearing and dispensable quality.
- Novelists seem to have as much to say as ever, but maybe books are becoming more and more dispensable to the modern human animal.
- And I have come to feel really dispensable, as though my initiative and judgment - the things that I personally can bring to the job - are not only unnecessary but unwelcome.
- If - heaven forbid - things did get out of hand, better to have a row of eminently dispensable foreign journalists in the most vulnerable seats than the prime minister and his entourage.
- There is always something happening in the European style village… festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than dispensable souvenirs, and entertainment.
- We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable, a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere.
- The fourth group can be characterized as the urban working class, most of whom are increasingly dispensable and replaceable; their diminished prospects cause them to be generally opposed to globalization.
- During the last century, when communism attempted to conquer the world, the poor were never better than its dispensable foot-soldiers.
- Needless to say, when that goal becomes personal salvation, the people who inhabit this earthly, tainted, and mortal world become dispensable.
- If we could, the manuscripts would become unnecessary, dispensable.
- In short, he has become politically dispensable.
- Our very success has made us seem dispensable.
- And then life wouldn't be this fast-food, microwave society where everybody's dispensable.
- Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past.
- Connacht, so long the political, social and economic ‘whipping boy’ of this island of ours, are once more found dispensable.
- Leading corporates the world over, no longer go by the old dictum that held sway at one time: ‘People are dispensable.’
- That's a hundred billion dollar fortune, a huge amount of money and they have to figure out how to do that, how to dispose of dispensable funds…
- This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or ‘redundant’.
- In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable.
- The ‘value’ of UN authority proved to be as dispensable as the Third Way.
Synonyms
expendable, disposable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable
unnecessary, unneeded, needless, not required, redundant, superfluous, surplus to requirements, gratuitous, uncalled for
1. 1.1 (of a law or other rule) not mandatory but susceptible of being waived in special cases.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics.
  But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land.
  This formulation of the argument begins by asking a simple question: When looking at the inherited traditions of a society, how can we know with certainty which are essential and which are dispensable?
  And finally, would the government get to decide which red streams were necessary and which were dispensable?

Derivatives

dispensability

noundɪspɛnsəˈbɪlɪti

The modern world seems to be geared more and more towards dispensability.
Example sentencesExamples
- She explores the theme of dispensability - how only some lives are worth mourning, protecting, defending and discussing.
- It's the sense of disposability and dispensability of the population that's ongoing and that really irks me.
- Later still, Darwinists suggested the ready dispensability of the appendix proved its uselessness.
- Could we develop a biological guidance system with the compliance and dispensability of a pigeon but with a man's resourcefulness and ability to infiltrate plausibly?

Origin

Early 16th century (in the sense 'permissible in special circumstances'): from medieval Latin dispensabilis, from Latin dispensare (see dispense).

Definition of dispensable in US English:

dispensable

adjectivedəˈspɛnsəb(ə)ldəˈspensəb(ə)l

1Able to be replaced or done without; superfluous.
tiny battlefield robots will be cheap and dispensable
Example sentencesExamples
- In short, he has become politically dispensable.
- And I have come to feel really dispensable, as though my initiative and judgment - the things that I personally can bring to the job - are not only unnecessary but unwelcome.
- In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable.
- There is always something happening in the European style village… festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than dispensable souvenirs, and entertainment.
- That's a hundred billion dollar fortune, a huge amount of money and they have to figure out how to do that, how to dispose of dispensable funds…
- During the last century, when communism attempted to conquer the world, the poor were never better than its dispensable foot-soldiers.
- We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable, a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere.
- Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past.
- Leading corporates the world over, no longer go by the old dictum that held sway at one time: ‘People are dispensable.’
- The fourth group can be characterized as the urban working class, most of whom are increasingly dispensable and replaceable; their diminished prospects cause them to be generally opposed to globalization.
- Needless to say, when that goal becomes personal salvation, the people who inhabit this earthly, tainted, and mortal world become dispensable.
- This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or ‘redundant’.
- Our very success has made us seem dispensable.
- The ‘value’ of UN authority proved to be as dispensable as the Third Way.
- Connacht, so long the political, social and economic ‘whipping boy’ of this island of ours, are once more found dispensable.
- And then life wouldn't be this fast-food, microwave society where everybody's dispensable.
- If we could, the manuscripts would become unnecessary, dispensable.
- Strange as it may seem, most people, especially men with their precious egos, do not like being told that the arrogance bred into them by their proud parents is an overbearing and dispensable quality.
- Novelists seem to have as much to say as ever, but maybe books are becoming more and more dispensable to the modern human animal.
- If - heaven forbid - things did get out of hand, better to have a row of eminently dispensable foreign journalists in the most vulnerable seats than the prime minister and his entourage.
Synonyms
expendable, disposable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable
1. 1.1 (of a law or other rule) able to be relaxed in special cases.
  Example sentencesExamples
  This formulation of the argument begins by asking a simple question: When looking at the inherited traditions of a society, how can we know with certainty which are essential and which are dispensable?
  But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land.
  Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics.
  And finally, would the government get to decide which red streams were necessary and which were dispensable?

Origin

Early 16th century (in the sense ‘permissible in special circumstances’): from medieval Latin dispensabilis, from Latin dispensare (see dispense).

单词	dispensable
释义	Definition of dispensable in English: dispensable adjective dɪˈspɛnsəb(ə)ldəˈspɛnsəb(ə)l 1Able to be replaced or done without; superfluous. the captain's loss of form made him dispensable Example sentencesExamples Strange as it may seem, most people, especially men with their precious egos, do not like being told that the arrogance bred into them by their proud parents is an overbearing and dispensable quality. Novelists seem to have as much to say as ever, but maybe books are becoming more and more dispensable to the modern human animal. And I have come to feel really dispensable, as though my initiative and judgment - the things that I personally can bring to the job - are not only unnecessary but unwelcome. If - heaven forbid - things did get out of hand, better to have a row of eminently dispensable foreign journalists in the most vulnerable seats than the prime minister and his entourage. There is always something happening in the European style village… festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than dispensable souvenirs, and entertainment. We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable, a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere. The fourth group can be characterized as the urban working class, most of whom are increasingly dispensable and replaceable; their diminished prospects cause them to be generally opposed to globalization. During the last century, when communism attempted to conquer the world, the poor were never better than its dispensable foot-soldiers. Needless to say, when that goal becomes personal salvation, the people who inhabit this earthly, tainted, and mortal world become dispensable. If we could, the manuscripts would become unnecessary, dispensable. In short, he has become politically dispensable. Our very success has made us seem dispensable. And then life wouldn't be this fast-food, microwave society where everybody's dispensable. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past. Connacht, so long the political, social and economic ‘whipping boy’ of this island of ours, are once more found dispensable. Leading corporates the world over, no longer go by the old dictum that held sway at one time: ‘People are dispensable.’ That's a hundred billion dollar fortune, a huge amount of money and they have to figure out how to do that, how to dispose of dispensable funds… This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or ‘redundant’. In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable. The ‘value’ of UN authority proved to be as dispensable as the Third Way. Synonyms expendable, disposable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable unnecessary, unneeded, needless, not required, redundant, superfluous, surplus to requirements, gratuitous, uncalled for 1.1 (of a law or other rule) not mandatory but susceptible of being waived in special cases. Example sentencesExamples Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics. But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land. This formulation of the argument begins by asking a simple question: When looking at the inherited traditions of a society, how can we know with certainty which are essential and which are dispensable? And finally, would the government get to decide which red streams were necessary and which were dispensable? Derivatives dispensability noundɪspɛnsəˈbɪlɪti The modern world seems to be geared more and more towards dispensability. Example sentencesExamples She explores the theme of dispensability - how only some lives are worth mourning, protecting, defending and discussing. It's the sense of disposability and dispensability of the population that's ongoing and that really irks me. Later still, Darwinists suggested the ready dispensability of the appendix proved its uselessness. Could we develop a biological guidance system with the compliance and dispensability of a pigeon but with a man's resourcefulness and ability to infiltrate plausibly? Origin Early 16th century (in the sense 'permissible in special circumstances'): from medieval Latin dispensabilis, from Latin dispensare (see dispense). Definition of dispensable in US English: dispensable adjectivedəˈspɛnsəb(ə)ldəˈspensəb(ə)l 1Able to be replaced or done without; superfluous. tiny battlefield robots will be cheap and dispensable Example sentencesExamples In short, he has become politically dispensable. And I have come to feel really dispensable, as though my initiative and judgment - the things that I personally can bring to the job - are not only unnecessary but unwelcome. In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable. There is always something happening in the European style village… festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than dispensable souvenirs, and entertainment. That's a hundred billion dollar fortune, a huge amount of money and they have to figure out how to do that, how to dispose of dispensable funds… During the last century, when communism attempted to conquer the world, the poor were never better than its dispensable foot-soldiers. We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable, a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past. Leading corporates the world over, no longer go by the old dictum that held sway at one time: ‘People are dispensable.’ The fourth group can be characterized as the urban working class, most of whom are increasingly dispensable and replaceable; their diminished prospects cause them to be generally opposed to globalization. Needless to say, when that goal becomes personal salvation, the people who inhabit this earthly, tainted, and mortal world become dispensable. This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or ‘redundant’. Our very success has made us seem dispensable. The ‘value’ of UN authority proved to be as dispensable as the Third Way. Connacht, so long the political, social and economic ‘whipping boy’ of this island of ours, are once more found dispensable. And then life wouldn't be this fast-food, microwave society where everybody's dispensable. If we could, the manuscripts would become unnecessary, dispensable. Strange as it may seem, most people, especially men with their precious egos, do not like being told that the arrogance bred into them by their proud parents is an overbearing and dispensable quality. Novelists seem to have as much to say as ever, but maybe books are becoming more and more dispensable to the modern human animal. If - heaven forbid - things did get out of hand, better to have a row of eminently dispensable foreign journalists in the most vulnerable seats than the prime minister and his entourage. Synonyms expendable, disposable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable 1.1 (of a law or other rule) able to be relaxed in special cases. Example sentencesExamples This formulation of the argument begins by asking a simple question: When looking at the inherited traditions of a society, how can we know with certainty which are essential and which are dispensable? But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land. Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics. And finally, would the government get to decide which red streams were necessary and which were dispensable? Origin Early 16th century (in the sense ‘permissible in special circumstances’): from medieval Latin dispensabilis, from Latin dispensare (see dispense).
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