adjective
- Not to be dispensed with; essential.
- usage: "foods indispensable to good nutrition"
- Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary.
- usage: "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
- synonyms: essential
- Unavoidable.
- usage: "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
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