Meaning & use
entailed
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Involved something as a necessary or unavoidable part or consequence.
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Running the marathon entailed months of rigorous training.
The new policy entailed significant changes to how the department operated.
A note on using this word
In law, "entail" has a distinct historical meaning: to restrict the inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs, as often seen in period dramas about aristocratic estates.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
(Law) To restrict the inheritance of property to a specific line of descendants.
The family estate was entailed, so it passed only to male heirs.
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