part and parcel

noun

: an essential or integral component
stress was part and parcel of the job

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After all, exits and grand finales are part and parcel with any theater and therefore any showgirl's life, and could be purely symbolic in nature. Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025 What is needed, Citarella’s strategy suggests, is an understanding of a kind of post-internet politics, where, like it or not, online life is embraced as part and parcel of how modern belief systems are formed. Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025 That’s not particularly part and parcel of their jobs. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 And that in turn makes The Lowdown even more charming than Lee at his best, and without any of the negative qualities that come part and parcel with his whole carefully curated persona as the last honest man in Tulsa. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for part and parcel

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of part and parcel was in the 15th century

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“Part and parcel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/part%20and%20parcel. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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