Meaning & use
Entailing
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Involving or necessitating something as a necessary part or consequence.
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The new job comes with more responsibility, entailing longer hours.
Building the bridge is a massive undertaking, entailing years of planning.
A note on using this word
Entail also has a distinct legal sense, meaning to restrict the inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs, as in the 'entailed estates' common in historical English law.
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2. verb
(law) Restricting the inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs.
The old law was entailing the estate to the eldest son for generations.
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