Definition of "dispensability" []

• The state of being dispensable (noun)
• The extent to which something is dispensable (noun)

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• "Just a straw in the wind, but the Corzine remark mirrors a callousness, a coarse attitude about the "dispensability" of the aged, that one sees in the debate over health-care reform."
• "This dispensability is, in fact, the key political problem of free trade."
• "This ideological turning point was first made explicit around 1981, when Ronald Reagan's mass firing of striking air traffic controllers was taken as signifying federal approval of a new and more adversarial era in labor management relations, made feasible largely by the increasing dispensability of American workers."