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expendability

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expendability [ɪksˌpendəˈbɪlətɪ] Nprescindibilidad f
expendability
n (form, of device, object) → Entbehrlichkeit f; (of person also)Überflüssigkeit f


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As our children grow, we worry less about exhaustion and more about expendability.
By juxtaposing the Breedloves with Dick and Jane, Morrison attributes their "pathologies" in part to the pathology of a nation that defines its own virtue through an ideology of childhood innocence that ironically allows for the expendability of children like Pecola.
As the Swinging '60s unfolded in London, Banham turned to the young architects of Archigram--Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb--to carry forward the Pop project of imageability and expendability.
 
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