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inalienable

adjective

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Unable to be taken away or transferred.

The essay argues that freedom of thought is an inalienable right.

Dictionary practice example.

The students' fictional town charter made a shared orchard inalienable, forbidding either its removal from community ownership or its transfer to a private purchaser.

From A Charter for the Imagined Town.

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