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disposable [də′spō·zə·bəl] (engineering) Within a manufacturing system, designed to be discarded after use and replaced by an identical item, such as a filter element. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| What corporations call "flexibility"--the right to dispose of workers at will--is what workers experience as disposability, not to mention insecurity and poverty. It's always sobering to witness the fragility of alternative art cultures and to speculate on how much of value is lost in the inevitable disposability of history. These act both as social glue, and as a bulwark against factors that prompt despair or a sense of insignificance and disposability. |
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