Meaning & use

part and parcel

phrase·Academic

An essential, inseparable element of something, so central that it cannot easily be removed.

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Long hours are part and parcel of working in emergency medicine.

Dealing with difficult customers is part and parcel of any retail job.

A note on using this word

Part and parcel is a fixed idiom; the two nouns are always used together in this order.

Words with a similar meaning

integral part

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