Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

expendable

/ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/ adjective, noun

Forms expendables

adjective Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. “Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.”
adjective Designed for a single use; not reusable. “The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.”
adjective Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal. “The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.”
adjective 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.”
noun 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.”

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Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “expendable”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details