Meanings
adjective
- That can be forgone.
Luxuries, because they can be forgone without harm, may be judged to be a morally more appropriate object of taxation than necessities, which by definition are not forgoable and not dissociable from harm.
1994, Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation, →ISBNSynonyms: dispensable · Antonyms: unforgoable, indispensable
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