expendable

1. ADJ If you regard someone or something as expendable, you think it is acceptable to get rid of them, abandon them, or allow them to be destroyed when they are no longer needed. 可消耗的[正式]

Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable. 一旦我們的服務(wù)對(duì)他們沒(méi)了用，我們就是可消耗的了。

During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury. 在衰退時(shí)期，培訓(xùn)預(yù)算被看成是消耗的奢侈品。