expendability

[ik-spen-duh-bi-luh-tee]

noun

1. the state or quality of being expendable.

Example Sentences

But that expendability is also the movie’s biggest issue.

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Fox News wants hosts who will draw ratings but who won’t rock the boat; marquee talents who are nevertheless aware of their own expendability.

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In short, the film’s sobriety is a drag, offering the actors little room to add color, their characters’ moral disparities less interesting than the small details of corporate-controlled life — the crippling debt burdens, the expendability of the soldiers, the compulsory contraceptive device behind Hannah’s ear — scattered throughout the speeches.

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There’s this feeling of expendability that artists get.

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Expendability has become the custom as Tutberidze keeps developing more agile skaters at younger ages, pushing the sport to its physical brink.

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