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entail
[ verb en-teyl; noun en-teyl, en-teyl ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence:
a loss entailing no regret.
- to impose as a burden:
Success entails hard work.
- Law. to limit the passage of (real estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else.
- Law. to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors.
noun
- the act of entailing.
- Law. the state of being entailed.
- any predetermined order of succession, as to an office.
- Law. something that is entailed, as an estate.
- Law. the rule of descent settled for an estate.
entail
/ ɪnˈteɪl /
verb
- to bring about or impose by necessity; have as a necessary consequence
this task entails careful thought
- property law to restrict (the descent of an estate) to a designated line of heirs
- logic to have as a necessary consequence
noun
- property law
- the restriction imposed by entailing an estate
- an estate that has been entailed
Derived Forms
- enˈtailer, noun
Other Words From
- en·tail·er noun
- en·tail·ment noun
- pre·en·tail verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of entail1
Word History and Origins
Origin of entail1
Example Sentences
With this news, what buckling down entails has changed for you, awfully — but the underlying task of doing what is necessary and available to you has not changed.
Does political and social equality really have to entail a leveling of sexual difference?
Some parents have transportation problems that entail further costs.
Foley was a risk taker who reported from the front lines, fully aware of the dangers that might entail.
He or she can work with you to map out an individualized plan, which may entail taking the hormone melatonin.
Exactly what his appointments entail, and how much he can charge clients, often depends on the city.
Personal and Social Covenanting both entail obligation on the Covenanting parties.
But men also humiliate us, degrade us, jeer at, ridicule the miseries that they and their society entail upon us.
The mention by Hogarth of Ridley and Latimer they considered irrelevant; their fathers' heroic mood was a detail: not an entail.
He hadn't been specific about what the "or else" would entail.
It cannot, Sir Wycherly; nor with a will, so long as an heir of entail can be found.
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