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Definitions for Dispensable
dɪˈspɛn sə bəldis·pens·able
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Princeton's WordNet
dispensableadjective
capable of being dispensed with or done without
"dispensable items of personal property"
Wiktionary
dispensableadjective
Able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced.
dispensableadjective
Capable of being dispensed; distributable.
dispensableadjective
Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
dispensableadjective
Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
Webster Dictionary
Dispensableadjective
capable of being dispensed or administered
Dispensableadjective
capable of being dispensed with
Etymology: [LL. dispensabilis. See Dispense.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dispensable
dis-pens′a-bl, adj. that may be dispensed, or dispensed with: (arch.) pardonable.—ns. Dispensabil′ity, Dispens′ableness.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Dispensable in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Dispensable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do, a hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. But what dependency has done, is has caused unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy. It has told young black males that they are dispensable, they don't need to hang around when mom needs support or whatever and it has destroyed -- and not just black communities, but any urban community, and so what you've got here is now they're addicted. Large swaths of Hispanic communities, black communities are addicted to these, these subsidies.
To have a significant impact on the illegal wildlife trade, there is a need to identify and prosecute the leaders of organized crime syndicates, the kingpins, who are unlikely ever to come into contact with the ivory directly, therefore, it is possible that this technique, whilst increasing the number of prosecutions associated with the illegal ivory trade by identifying individuals involved in the handling of the ivory, might have negligible effect on the volume of the illegal trade: national and international couriers are dispensable and readily replaceable.
There's a feeling that Catalonia is what makes Spain, without Catalonia there is no Spain. Losing Catalonia would really be quite fatal, while Scotland is seen in England as ultimately dispensable.
Economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is having a harsher impact on women, who are disproportionately represented in sectors offering low wages, few benefits and the least secure jobs, instead of righting that wrong, governments treated women's jobs as dispensable -- and that has come at a cost of at least $ 800 billion in lost wages for those in formal employment.
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