Meaning & use

entail

verb·Academic

To involve or require something as a necessary part or consequence.

See it in a sentence

Starting a small business entails significant financial risk and long hours.

The new role entails managing a team of twelve remote employees.

A note on using this word

Entail is never followed by to; say the job entails traveling, not entails to travel.

Words with a similar meaning

involverequirenecessitate

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Another way to use it

2. verb

In law, to restrict the inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs.

The estate was entailed so that only male descendants could inherit it.

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