"imprescindible" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more imprescindible",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most imprescindible",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Helen Silving, Criminal Justice, volume II, →ISBN, page 1003:",
          "text": "It is imprescindible that the actor—in his lay mind—visualize the execution of an act which bears all the elements that are required by a statutory crime definition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Modern Law and Society, page 17:",
          "text": "Courage to be unpopular means in criminal law punishing only in cases where punishment is imprescindible in the interest of social protection.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Thomas Graham, Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: “The Dawn of Historical Reason”, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 345:",
          "text": "The fattest example of this mistake has been the political exaltation of manual work, simply because it is imprescindible.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital."
      ],
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          "Indispensable",
          "indispensable"
        ],
        [
          "essential",
          "essential"
        ],
        [
          "imperative",
          "imperative"
        ],
        [
          "vital",
          "vital"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "imprescindible"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more imprescindible",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most imprescindible",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1971, Helen Silving, Criminal Justice, volume II, →ISBN, page 1003:",
          "text": "It is imprescindible that the actor—in his lay mind—visualize the execution of an act which bears all the elements that are required by a statutory crime definition.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Modern Law and Society, page 17:",
          "text": "Courage to be unpopular means in criminal law punishing only in cases where punishment is imprescindible in the interest of social protection.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Thomas Graham, Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: “The Dawn of Historical Reason”, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 345:",
          "text": "The fattest example of this mistake has been the political exaltation of manual work, simply because it is imprescindible.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital."
      ],
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          "essential",
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        ],
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          "imperative",
          "imperative"
        ],
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          "vital",
          "vital"
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  "word": "imprescindible"
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