English Explanatory Dictionary

part and parcel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.

Word forms

part and parcel parts and parcels

Etymology

"Parcel" is used in its archaic sense of "an integral or component part." Originally used as a legal term.

Related words

come with the territory
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