Definition of entail in English:

entail

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transitive verb

[with object]

1Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.
‘a situation that entails considerable risks’
- ‘Safeties need to know the entire defensive scheme, even though their jobs don't necessarily entail a lot of adjustments.’
- ‘The new system of logistic support for the Navy will inevitably entail considerable changes in the organizational and staff structure of bases and depots.’
- ‘High bypass criteria necessarily entails a high degree of risk, as we saw today.’
- ‘Rural life is badly suited to non-agricultural production, so economic development necessarily entails the progressive urbanization of the population.’
- ‘Whether the abandonment of the dialectics of nature necessarily entails the abandonment of the materialist conception of history, as Monod seemed to think, seems quite a different matter.’
- ‘And I think that cleaning up from drugs necessarily entails a revaluation of the spiritual facet of yourself.’
- ‘If the debate about the post-Cold War structure was about the relevance of the balance of power in general, it was also specifically focused on the nature of the resultant polarity, and the consequences for stability entailed by it.’
- ‘But a weak sense of the ‘public’ does not necessarily entail a strong sense of the ‘private’.’
- ‘I have said that this proposal would not necessarily entail any considerations of taxation levels.’
- ‘It entails an involved series of exchanges that verify the integrity of every downstream device attached to the repeater.’
- ‘The existence of the one necessarily entails the existence of the other.’
- ‘It necessarily entails a certain degree of compromise on the part of the insurgents.’
- ‘This necessarily entails a continuous stream of new lies to compensate for the exposure of the old ones.’
- ‘As the mother is an innocent bystander in the endeavour her involvement entails only risk.’
- ‘Such practices do not necessarily entail intentional discrimination, but they provide a basis for legal action when the outcome is the exclusion of certain groups.’
- ‘Economic efficiency did not necessarily entail the development of large, capital-intensive factories, for towns themselves were highly effective economic units.’
- ‘Thus, my contention is that the existence of uneven power relations does not necessarily entail the subordination and passivity of the ‘other’.’
- ‘Yet a rejection of the present does not necessarily entail a desired return to a more stable - that is, colonial - moment in Ireland's past.’
- ‘The evolution of swordfighting martial arts hero into gun-toting gangster must necessarily entail a new concept in production design.’
- ‘It does not even necessarily entail a set of shared beliefs.’
necessitate, make necessary, require, need, demand, call for
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1. 1.1Logic Have as a logically necessary consequence.
  ‘Most of us think we can always enlarge our knowledge base by accepting things that are entailed by things we know.’
  ‘Indeed, strictly speaking, no such information will ever logically entail that there is an external world, in anything like the way we normally imagine.’
  ‘The last four predicates are equivalent, so they entail the same predicates and are entailed by the same predicates.’
  ‘What is entailed by a necessary fact is itself necessary, however.’
  ‘Because these are one and all reflective judgments, they entail neither a theoretical nor a practical conclusion as to what might be behind these purposes.’
2Law
Settle the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular group, usually one family.
‘her father's estate was entailed on a cousin’
- ‘Within the inalienability of entailed real property was concealed the conversion of Parliamentary seats into a cash value.’
- ‘Fortunes then were large and permanent since they were entailed and in fact the younger branches of the family never married.’
1. 2.1 archaic Cause to experience or possess in a way perceived as permanent or inescapable.
  ‘I cannot get rid of the disgrace that you have entailed upon us’

Pronunciation

entail

/inˈtāl/ /ɪnˈteɪl/

/enˈtāl/ /ɛnˈteɪl/

noun

1Law
A settlement of the inheritance of property over a number of generations so that it remains within a family or other group.
‘the damage being done in England by entails’
- ‘landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail’
- ‘The greater aristocracy built up their estates, often in several counties, and protected them from the follies of spendthrift heirs by the entail or strict settlement.’
- ‘One form of old settlement was regarded by the Law Commission as inappropriate in modern law and cannot now be created in any form: that settlement is the entail.’
- ‘In Prussia, or Spain before 1836, perpetual entails prevented the break-up of large estates.’
1. 1.1A property that is bequeathed under such conditions.
  ‘the spinning mills were not part of the entail’