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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entail
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
involve/entail risk
▪ Investments that provide a high return generally entail more risk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entail

Entail \En*tail"\, n. [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]

  1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)

    1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

    2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.

      A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
      --Hume.

  2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] ``A work of rich entail.''
    --Spenser.

Entail

Entail \En*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail, n.]

  1. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

    Allowing them to entail their estates.
    --Hume.

    I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
    --Shak.

  2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]

    To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
    --Shak.

  3. To cut or carve in an ornamental way. [Obs.]

    Entailed with curious antics.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entail

mid-14c., "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum)," from en- (1) "make" + taile "legal limitation," especially of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing the property from being sold off, from Anglo-French taile, Old French taillie, past participle of taillier "allot, cut to shape," from Late Latin taliare "to split" (see tailor). Sense of "have consequences" is 1829, via the notion of "inseparable connection." Related: Entailed; entailling; entailment.

Wiktionary
entail

n. 1 That which is entailed. Hence: 2 (context obsolete English) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To imply or require. 2 (context transitive English) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To appoint hereditary possessor. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

WordNet
entail

  1. n. land received by fee tail

  2. the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

  3. v. have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: imply, mean]

  4. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: implicate]

  5. limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs [syn: fee-tail]

Wikipedia
Entail (disambiguation)

Entail may refer to:

  • Fee tail, a term of art in common law describing a limited form of succession
  • Entailment, a logical relation between sentences of a formal language
  • Entailment (pragmatics), the use of the term in pragmatics
  • In architecture (obsolete), an ornamental device sunk in the ground of stone or brass, and subsequently filled in with marble, mosaic or enamel: see inlay

Usage examples of "entail".

And he drew from recollection, the raw enthusiasm of his adolescence, when ideals were a substitute for judgment, life was play, and the future entailed nothing more lively than horse raids and begetting children.

Now this simple attitude entails a number of dangerous consequences: first, an inclination to seek out some cheap form of archaism or some imaginary past forms of happiness that people did not, in fact, have at all.

This axiom entails corollaries, including a free market and limited government intervention.

When the old bibliomaniac died, aged eighty, Halliwell was energetic in repairing the roof of Middle Hill, finding a buyer for it, and breaking the entail on the estate.

Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

The various speculations on the subject of the Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

I should have preferred to travel by bus to see Margaret, but the journey entailed changing several times and buses are notoriously infrequent on Sundays.

The codicil means that you and I are the last of the entailed line to the fee simple, so that the Mompessons now only hold a base-fee to the property.

He could not leave me anything, as his property was entailed, while his furniture and his library would become the prey of his creditors.

It was not entailed, and in any case there are no Deyres now in existence.

With as unfailing certainty as if they had been regulated by the laws of primogeniture and entail, this estimable clergyman has inherited the gifts and graces of his esteemed father.

A surgical strike would have eliminated Fett without the risk of drawing attention that a bombing raid entailed.

Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.

She had then undertaken this vast responsibility, entailing heavy expenditure, till at last, after selling all her diamonds and lace, she had fled to Holland to avoid arrest.

If they make you queen, whatever that might entail and however disgusting some duties might be, Xaefyer has at least promised you will learn all they know.