B2adjectiveformalworkbusiness
US/dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/
UK/dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/
not necessary, so it can be removed or done without
In context
When money was tight, the company decided that extra training was dispensable.
No employee should feel dispensable in a healthy workplace.
Most of the decorations were dispensable, so we left them at home.
Words that go with dispensable
adverb + adjective
- increasingly dispensableThe old rules are becoming increasingly dispensable.
- totally dispensableManagers should not call support staff totally dispensable.
- easily dispensableThose extra meetings are easily dispensable.
- largely dispensableThe extra features are largely dispensable.
- hardly dispensableA good map is hardly dispensable on this trip.