expendability

American  

[ik-spen-duh-bi-luh-tee] / ɪkˌspɛn dəˈbɪ lə ti /

noun

1. the state or quality of being expendable.

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Example Sentences

She wrote her final paper on the expendability of the American worker.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

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.

From New York Times

There’s this feeling of expendability that artists get.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post