dispensable
pronunciation
How to pronounce dispensable in British English: UK [dɪˈspensəbl]
How to pronounce dispensable in American English: US [dɪˈspensəbl]
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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 .