Adjective : The money is not dispensable at present.    From Dictionary.com. 

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Such an idea leads to waste and dispensability of everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Hence the dispensability of traditions by which the office is honored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Can You FOIA to Find Out If You Have Been Reported to the White House? And What is the ACLU’s Position?] Reference

I am, however, still sticking to my guns about the dispensability of VA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Poll: Obama The Stronger Dem Against McCain] Reference

The first thing to note is that ˜dispensability™ is not the same as ˜eliminability™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

But, for the moment, the seeming dispensability of traditions by which the office is understood by ordinary people to be honored — or dishonored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Addendum to My FOIA-ACLU Post, or, La Trahison des New Class:] Reference

The other thing is what you pointed out at the end, the dispensability and uselessness, of marriage and men, in this system as a function of this culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage] Reference

Many reports have found significant correlations between protein evolutionary rate and expression levels, codon adaptation index (CAI), protein interactions (see below), protein length, protein dispensability and centrality in protein interactions networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Rambling] Reference

Nevertheless, I become defensive pessimism in action, puncturing my fear by learning to go without something before it's officially discontinued, weaning myself off of saffron or Iranian caviar before it becomes no longer available and trying to ascribe a similar luxurious dispensability to my left arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Rakoff's 'Half Empty' Worldview Is Full Of Wit] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Fletcher: Economics: How to Cure a Sick Discipline] Reference

Or a modern comment on the dispensability of human life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

The dispensability of workers whose real safety is of no concern to the very agency formed to protect the American workers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left Side of the Moon] Reference

But, for the moment, the seeming dispensability of traditions by which the office is understood by ordinary people to be honored - or dishonored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

The ameliorations wrought in favor of the pecuniary interest in modern institutions tend, in another field, to substitute the "soulless" joint-stock corporation for the captain, and so they make also for the dispensability, of the great leisure-class function of ownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Lucy says, feigning hurt over her dispensability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference

2 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom Dosage sensitivity is an important evolutionary force which impacts on gene dispensability and duplicability.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

4 Ss OWi 731/08 OLG Hamm: appeal; violation defense, defense, acute illness, rejection of the opposition, unexcused absences at the hearing, inability to travel, no diagnosis, medical certificate, verification required waive four Ss OWi 224/08 OLG Hamm: appeal; identification, Libi, photo, referral, appropriateness for the identification, inquiry, rejecting, driving ban, consciousness, to be able to disregard the ban, testing requirement, no explicit discussion of dispensability because very serious infringement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pressemitteilung WebService - Pressemitteilungen & Pressemeldungen kostenlos] Reference