dispensable

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    capable of being dispensed with or done without

Word Origin

dispensable (adj.)
1530s, "subject to dispensation," from Medieval Latin dispensabilis, from dispensare (see dispense). Meaning "that can be done without" is from 1640s. Related: Dispensability.

Example

1. Face-to-face contact in gay neighborhoods became increasingly dispensable .
2. Let the dispensable afraid go to hell , the life need enjoyment .
3. Wherever conductors are needed , insulators will be in dispensable .
4. Markets are neither infallible nor dispensable .
5. Cohen doesn 't think we should treat privacy as a dispensable instrument .

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