entail in English

verb

1

involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.

a situation that entails considerable risks

synonyms: involve, necessitate, require, need, demand, call for, mean, imply, cause, produce, result in, lead to, give rise to, occasion

2

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

noun

1

a settlement of the inheritance of property over a number of generations so that it remains within a family or other group.

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.

verb

involve, necessitate, require, need, demand, call for, mean, imply, cause, produce, result in, lead to, give rise to, occasion
imply, mean
implicate

Use "entail" in a sentence

1. All policies entail risk.

2. What does the job actually entail?

3. Restructuring will inevitably entail compromises.

4. What does subjection entail for Christian wives?

5. Will production entail profits or losses?

6. And what does walking with God really entail?

7. The journey will entail changing trains twice.

8. Disappearances entail the violation of many fundamental human rights.

9. Such a decision would entail a huge political risk.

10. You allude perhaps to the entail of this estate.

11. These things entail that the seismograph becomes rather bully.

12. Other circumstances that entail a postponement of the hearing.

13. The enterprise will entail enormous expense and labour on us.

14. 3:15) Such preparation need not entail a lot of time.

15. Slippage on any job will entail slippage on the overall project.

16. This proposal does not entail additional costs for the EU budget.

17. Her intemperance will entail the curse of insanity upon her innocent children.

18. Let us pause, for a moment, to note what that would entail.

19. Distribution can entail segregating aggregation levels to different monitored carriers.

20. 19 Mountaineering will entail an early start in the morning.

21. Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary Corseting it would entail.

22. But such benefits as we may find here and elsewhere entail countervailing disadvantages.

23. It does not entail any recurring or non-recurring expenditure on the Government.

24. Such a requirement would necessarily entail advance notice, when it should remain exceptional.

25. It does not discuss all the details that borrowing or lending may entail.

26. Such an agreement can therefore entail actions for damages in tort.

27. I had already been briefed about what the job would entail.

28. RNG: How could a reasoned argument logically entail the ineffectiveness of reasoned arguments?

29. CSD's non-banking-type ancillary services that do not entail credit or liquidity risks

30. The grant of the permanent abandonment premium shall entail loss of the replanting right.

31. the use of technically feasible and safe alternatives would entail disproportionate costs.

32. We had already been briefed about/on what the job would entail.

33. The abandoning or destruction of goods must not entail any expense to the Exchequer.

34. Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses.

35. Non-banking-type ancillary services of CSDs that do not entail credit or liquidity risks

36. 7 Inevitably, this will entail losing some of the irreplaceable character of this unique building.

37. It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way.

38. Part of this will entail less traffic generally, especially car and air traffic.

39. Supplements address changes to Regulations which do not entail a change in the approval mark

40. Capacity to address this challenge effectively needs to be built. That will entail additional financial resources.

41. Obviously a process of balanced deflation would entail no alteration of the real wage rate.

42. The massive investments required entail a predictable and stable environment towards which we are working actively.

43. Two separate procedures entail a longer period for processing applications and higher administrative costs.

44. Re-engagement should not entail a priori conditionality on the procedural basis for discussions

45. 13 But such benefits as we may find here and elsewhere entail countervailing disadvantages.

46. It may entail discipline that will probe your motives and test the mettle of your dedication.

47. The SID project will be self-sustainable and will not entail any expenditure by the Government.

48. While macroeconomic stability is essential for social development, macro-level stabilisation and adjustment policies can entail costs.

49. Distribution can entail segregating a number of decoding candidates for a given aggregation level to different monitored carriers.

50. □ What task did God give Adam in addition to caring for the garden, and what did this entail?