Usually means: Absolutely necessary, cannot be omitted.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word indispensable:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. indispensable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. indispensable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indispensable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indispensable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indispensable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Indispensable, indispensable: Wordnik
  7. indispensable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. indispensable: Wiktionary
  9. indispensable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. indispensable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. indispensable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. indispensable: Dictionary.com
  13. indispensable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. indispensable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Indispensable (Michael Franks album), Indispensable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Indispensable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. indispensable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. indispensable: Rhymezone
  19. Indispensable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. indispensable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. indispensable: Free Dictionary
  22. indispensable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. indispensable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. indispensable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indispensable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indispensable: Idioms

(Note: See indispensability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
adjective:  (of duties, rules etc.) Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.
adjective:  Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
noun:  A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
noun:  (in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.

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