entailen‧tail /ɪnˈteɪl/ verb [transitive] 
Word Origin Examples
A new computer system entails a lot of re-training. Some foreign travel is entailed in the job.entail doing something The journey will entail changing trains twice.2old use if you entail property, you arrange for it to be given to a specific person, usually your oldest son, when you die
Word OriginWORD ORIGINentail
Verb TableOrigin:
1300-1400 Anglo-French taile ‘legal limitation’, from Old French taillier ‘to cut, limit’VERB TABLE
entail
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | it | entails |
| Present | entail | |
| Past | it, they | entailed |
| Present perfect | they | have entailed |
| it | has entailed | |
| Past perfect | it, they | had entailed |
| Future | it, they | will entail |
| Future perfect | it, they | will have entailed |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- I didn't want to take on a job that would entail a lot of travelling.
- Repairs would entail the closure of the bridge for six months.
- The job entailed being on call twenty-four hours a day.
- A text would entail its interpretation only if meaning was exhausted by sense, the coded or literal meanings studied by semantics.
- Every value distribution entails trade-offs between different values as well as some inequality in the distribution of benefits and burdens.
- I found I was expected to make progress, entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads.
- I thought you understood what this job entailed.
- It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated.
- The leadership role entails taking the initiative in formulating, articulating, and implementing goals for the political system.
- This was important because many of the staff did not fully understand what the role entailed.
- To bring the site up to the standard necessary for the positioning of bottle and paper banks would entail greater expenditure.
Longman Language Activatorwhen a job, plan etc includes something that you must do► entail
Collocations if a job, plan, piece of work etc entails something, you have to do it because this is part of the job, plan etc: · I didn't want to take on a job that would entail a lot of travelling.entail doing something: · The job entailed being on call twenty-four hours a day.
► involve if something such as a job, plan, decision etc involves something, you have to do it because it is part of the job, plan etc: · Community service can involve anything from gardening to helping in old people's homes.involve doing something: · The plan involves converting the old canteen into a sports hall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► involve/entail risk
1to involve something as a necessary part or result: · Investments that provide a high return generally entail more risk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also· The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward's plans.· Going out for a drink meant more than that it also entailed eating out.· Loans between banks also entailed modest capital requirements.· Empowerment also entails being given the opportunity to fail.· Collective entrepreneurship also entails a different organizational structure.· It would also entail another meeting between them, a small voice inside told her, shocking her with its message.· This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.· Labov's work to redeem, as it were, underprivileged speech also entailed a revealing critique of more privileged forms.
► necessarily· It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated.· Attention to discourse does not necessarily entail sacrificing the traditional emphasis on pronunciation and writing, grammar and vocabulary.· This necessarily entails longer term assistance in comparatively stable situations.
NOUN► job· I thought you understood what this job entailed.· Their ambivalence about career choices is coupled with scanty knowledge about what such jobs actually entail or what their educational requirements are.· My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway.· She was here to do a job, and doing her job properly entailed keeping her personal feelings strictly under control.· Few among them could have known what the job entailed.
► loss· Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.· Will production entail profits or losses?· Given these factors, any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland.
► risk· For these reasons international trade entails a greater risk of non-performance of a contract and non-payment on completion.· Everyday communication over phone and fax lines entails security risks.· The older method entailed the risk of being buried alive by collapsing river banks.· Because they want high yields, and as I have pointed out many times, a higher return generally entails more risk.
A new computer system entails a lot of re-training. Some foreign travel is entailed in the job.entail doing something The journey will entail changing trains twice.2old use if you entail property, you arrange for it to be given to a specific person, usually your oldest son, when you die