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entail /ɪnˈteɪl / /ɛnˈteɪl/verb [with object]1Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence: a situation which 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.
Synonyms necessitate, make necessary, require, need, demand, call for; presuppose, assume, warrant, be grounds for; involve, mean, imply; cause, bring about, produce, result in, end in, culminate in, finish in, terminate in, lead to, give rise to, occasion, engender, generate, prompt, effect, evoke, elicit, precipitate, trigger, spark off, provoke 1.1 Logic 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.
2 Law Limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group: 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.
2.1 archaic Cause to experience or possess (something) permanently or inescapably: I cannot get rid of the disgrace which you have entailed upon us noun Law1A limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations: the damage being done in England by entails [mass noun]: 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.
1.1A property bequeathed under an entail: the spinning mills were not part of the entail OriginLate Middle English (referring to settlement of property; formerly also as intail): from en-1, in-2 'into' + Old French taille 'notch, tax' (see tail2). Rhymesail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale |