Meaning & use
dispensable
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Not essential; able to be done without or replaced.
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In a crisis, luxuries quickly become dispensable.
The manager made it clear that no employee was truly dispensable to the team's success.
A note on using this word
Its antonym, "indispensable," is far more commonly used today, making "dispensable" feel like the less familiar half of the pair.
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