non-expendible

Updated: January 17, 2026

Myriad bits of ordnance are continually pouring in and pouring out, and the object is to track them, and balance them, and pursue every elusive atom from start to finish. It may be expendible, like paint, or non-expendible, like an anvil.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.