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Indispensable

1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

2. Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. The law was moral and indispensable. (bp. Burnet)

3. Unavoidable; inevitable.

Origin: Pref. In- not _ dispensable: cf. F. Indispensable.