| 单词 | dispensable |
| 释义 | dispensable (once / 528 pages) adj Something that's dispensable isn't necessary — you don't really need it. Your vintage typewriter is cool, but it's also dispensable, since you can type and print with your laptop. If robots are invented to do most of the jobs in the world, human workers will become dispensable, or unneeded. Likewise, many home chefs might insist that if you have a really good, sharp knife, other tools like peelers and choppers and food processors are completely dispensable. The earliest definition of this word was "subject to dispensation," from the Latin dispensare, "disburse or distribute," although by the 1640s dispensable meant "that which can be done without." WORD FAMILYdispensable: dispensability, dispensableness, indispensable+/dispensary: dispensaries/dispensation: dispensations/dispense: dispensable, dispensary, dispensation, dispensed, dispenser, dispenses, dispensing/dispenser: dispensers/indispensability: indispensabilities/indispensable: indispensability, indispensableness, indispensably USAGE EXAMPLESAnd since they are not issued playbooks and therefore possess no secret institutional knowledge, they are – as Blair Walsh learned last week – dispensable. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) But if Pence is dispensable to the candidate he is essential to the candidacy. The New Yorker(Oct 05, 2016) Some might see Mr Maduro as dispensable, he said: a movement would not be sacrificed for “an already worn-out leadership.” Economist(Sep 08, 2016) adj capable of being dispensed with or done without dispensable items of personal property Syn|Ant unnecessary, unneeded not necessary indispensable not to be dispensed with; essential critical, vitalurgently needed; absolutely necessary necessaryabsolutely essential |
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