ex-pen-da-ble

stem of latin: expendere (to pay, judge)

describes a person or an object of relatively little significance, and therefore able to be abandoned or destroyed.

For it is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive. Therefore, if everything is well considered, it will not be difficult for a wise prince to keep the minds of his citizens steadfast from first to last, when he does not fail to support and defend them.

Large organisations strive for political compromises with the state and with each other, excluding the public sphere whenever possible. But at the same time the large organisations must assure themselves of at least plebiscitary support from the mass of the population through an apparent display of openness.