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What (who) is expendable - definition

BOOK BY JAMES ALAN GARDNER

expendable         
¦ adjective of relatively little significance and therefore able to be sacrificed or abandoned.
Derivatives
expendability noun
expendably adverb
expendable         
If you regard someone or something as expendable, you think it is acceptable to get rid of them, abandon them, or allow them to be destroyed when they are no longer needed. (FORMAL)
Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable...
During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.
ADJ
Expendable         
Expendable is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner, published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints.Avon Books; HarperCollins Canada; SFBC/AvoNova.

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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. There is a "sub-series" involving just the character Festima Ramos, and sometimes the female Oar.

The novel introduces many concepts in Gardner's "League of Peoples" universe, such as the Explorer Corps, Sentient Citizens, and the League itself.

Examples of use of expendable
1. "Shoot first, ask questions later means everyone‘s expendable," Capers said.
2. As he prepared to introduce a film on the Royal Family, Cuomo said Harry "has been over in Afghanistan fighting because he‘s expendable." Scroll down for more ... Expendable?
3. He said he is being scapegoated because, as a reservist, officials view him as expendable.
4. Fathers, because they are assumed to be relatively expendable, elude opprobrium.
5. "They believe workers are expendable and wages mean nothing," Gettelfinger said.