EXPENDABLE

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.

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expendable

Noun

  1. An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
    Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.

Adjective

  1. Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
    Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
  2. Designed for a single use; not reusable.
    The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
  3. Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
    The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
  4. That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
    In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.


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