Definition of "dispensable" [dis•pen•sa•ble]

• Not essential; unimportant: dispensable items of personal property. (adjective)
• Capable of being dispensed, administered, or distributed: dispensable drugs. (adjective)
• Subject to dispensation, as a vow or church law. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You'll have to give up some stuff on that list and which are dispensable is something only you guys know."
• "Klf-4 and c-myc endogenously expressed in the starting cells, make forcing their expression dispensable"
• "(Romesh Ratnesar subtitles his dispensable book on Reagan's 1987 "tear down this wall" speech in Berlin "A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War.")"