Usually means: Not necessary, can be omitted.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word dispensable:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispensable: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispensable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispensable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispensable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispensable: Vocabulary.com
  6. dispensable: Wordnik
  7. dispensable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispensable: Wiktionary
  9. dispensable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispensable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dispensable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dispensable, dispensable: Dictionary.com
  13. Dispensable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dispensable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dispensable: Rhymezone
  16. dispensable, dispensable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dispensable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. dispensable: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dispensable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dispensable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dispensable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispensable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispensable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispensable: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dispensability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to be done without; easily replaced.
adjective:  Capable of being dispensed.
adjective:  (of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
adjective:  (biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
noun:  Something that can reasonably be dispensed with; something unnecessary.

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