Meaning & use
entail
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.
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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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