expendable in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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He is ruthless, viewing his subordinates as expendable once he no longer needs them.
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This life is cut short by a corrupt hospital administration harvesting several of his more expendable organs.
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This consists of 155 chapters, 99 of which are expendable, which can be read in multiple orders according to the reader's predilection.
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This in turn would make the shuttle cost competitive with or superior to expendable launchers.
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The black regiments were segregated from white regiments and were usually sent off into dangerous situations because they were seen as expendable.
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His pamphlet asserts that this requirement moves the clergy, with their expendable wealth, to entice women to lead lives of sin.
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Cloning is commonplace, with clones being regarded as products of science, and therefore, non-people for use as expendable slave labour.
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In some cases, accoutrements are expendable or written off at the time of issue.
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A number of alternatives to expendable rockets have been proposed.
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This is a problem for expendable engines as well as reusable ones, because engines must be ground-fired some number of times before launch.
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