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dispensable

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++di·spen·sa·ble /dɪˈspensəbəl/ adjective  NEEDnot necessary or important and so easy to get rid of 不必要的,可有可无的 OPP indispensable Part-time workers are considered dispensable. 兼职工作人员被认为是可有可无的。
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dispensableAs it happens, explicit truth claims are not entirely dispensable.But neither do such concepts reduce to the corresponding predicates, nor indeed are such predicates entirely dispensable.Even the District Secretary was not averse to reminding his tutor-organisers that they were dispensable.Literature, being a form of art, unlike language, is dispensable.Even dessert was dispensable, although a choice of liqueurs was on the sideboard.He was depressed that this absolutely dispensable element of the culture of his origin had followed them to the United States.Part-time workers are considered dispensable in times of recession.Tenure was necessary on the main campus, he said, but dispensable on the new Arizona International Campus.
di·spen·sa·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
and easy so or not to get Corpus important necessary


dispensable
dispensable /dɪˈspensəbəl/ adjective
not necessary or important and so easy to get rid of
   OPP  indispensable:
    Part-time workers are considered dispensable.


dis·pens·ableBrE /dɪˈspensəbl/ 🔊NAmE /dɪˈspensəbl/ 🔊 adjective [not usually before noun] not necessary; that can be got rid of 不必要;可有可无;不重要They looked on music and art lessons as dispensable. 他们认为音乐课和美术课是可有可无的。🔊🔊 OPP essential, indispensable