Throwaway vs. Expendable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Throwaway and Expendable
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Definitions
Throwaway
Something designed or likely to be discarded after use, as a free handbill distributed on the street.
Expendable
Expendable is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner, published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints. It is the first book in a series involving the "League of Peoples", an assemblage of advanced species in the Milky Way galaxy.
Throwaway
A child or teenager who has been rejected, ejected, or abandoned by parents or guardians and lives on the streets.
Expendable
Subject to use or consumption
An expendable source.
Throwaway
Designed or intended to be discarded after use
Throwaway packaging.
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Expendable
Not worth salvaging or reusing
Expendable rocket boosters.
Throwaway
Readily discarding things
A throwaway society.
Expendable
Not strictly necessary; dispensable
An expendable budget item.
Expendable personnel.
Throwaway
Having been rejected, ejected, or abandoned by parents or guardians
Throwaway children living on the streets.
Expendable
Open to sacrifice in the interests of gaining an objective, especially a military one
Expendable civilian targets.
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Throwaway
Written or delivered in a low-key or offhand manner
"a sentence fragment or quirky throwaway metaphor" (Joyce Carol Oates).
Expendable
Something expendable.
Throwaway
Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.
Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.
Expendable
Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
Throwaway
Extemporaneous; off the cuff.
The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.
Expendable
Designed for a single use; not reusable.
The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
Throwaway
Given in a casual manner, either deliberately or unconsciously, with apparent disregard for effect.
Expendable
Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
Throwaway
Something temporary and disposable.
Expendable
Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
Throwaway
(internet) A burner account.
Expendable
An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.
Throwaway
Designed to be discarded after a single use; disposable.
Expendable
Suitable to be expended
Throwaway
Spoken with deliberate underemphasis; as, a throwaway line in a play.
Expendable
(used of funds) remaining after taxes;
Spendable income
Throwaway
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
Throwaway
Words spoken in a casual way with conscious underemphasis.
Throwaway
A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets
Throwaway
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution;
He mailed the circular to all subscribers
Throwaway
Words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
Throwaway
Thrown away;
Wearing someone's cast-off clothes
Throwaway children living on the streets
Salvaged some thrown-away furniture
Throwaway
Intended to be thrown away after use;
Throwaway diapers
