adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Part-time workers are considered dispensable in times of recession.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As it happens, explicit truth claims are not entirely dispensable .
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But neither do such concepts reduce to the corresponding predicates, nor indeed are such predicates entirely dispensable .
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Even dessert was dispensable , although a choice of liqueurs was on the sideboard.
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Even the District Secretary was not averse to reminding his tutor-organisers that they were dispensable .
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He was depressed that this absolutely dispensable element of the culture of his origin had followed them to the United States.
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Literature, being a form of art, unlike language, is dispensable .
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Tenure was necessary on the main campus, he said, but dispensable on the new Arizona International Campus.