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UK
/ˌɪndɪspˈɛnsəbəl/
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[ US /ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not to be dispensed with; essential
foods indispensable to good nutrition -
absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
funds essential to the completion of the project
an indispensable worker
essential tools and materials -
unavoidable
the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state
How To Use indispensable In A Sentence
- The congress believes that the excavation of an interoceanic canal at sea level, so desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, is feasible; and that, in order to take advantage of the indispensable facilities for access and operation which a channel of this kind must offer above all, this canal should extend from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama. The Path Between the Seas
- And because tools were indispensable, they argued that capital was indispensable. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
- The essential and indispensable element of the nucleus is called nuclein (or caryoplasm); that of the cell body is called plastin (or cytoplasm). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
- The doctor, according to very accurate calculations, found that, including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus, he should have to carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore he had to find out what would be the ascensional force of Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The abstract ideas of which the air consists, indispensable for life, but irrespirable by themselves, as it were, and only active in their re-directing function. Pragmatism
- America is still the indispensable nation. Times, Sunday Times
- French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
- Digital scan converter (DSC) is an indispensable part in the display equipment of radar, biomedical ultra sound detector, sonar, electronic surface analyzer.
- For they have become the indispensable actor in world affairs. Times, Sunday Times
- Film has proved itself an indispensable Global English word, even where it no longer has anything to do with films, or “coatings” of light-sensitive emulsions applied to plastic, or coatings of any kind. The English Is Coming!