Meaning & use
Entailments
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Consequences or conditions that necessarily follow from something, or, in law, restrictions that limit the inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs.
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Raising the minimum wage carries entailments for small-business budgets that lawmakers must weigh.
Under the old entailments, the estate could pass only to a male descendant.
A note on using this word
In logic and linguistics, an "entailment" is a proposition that must be true if another proposition is true; the legal sense is much older, dating to feudal property law.
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2. noun
In logic, a relationship in which the truth of one statement guarantees the truth of another.
The entailments of the premise ruled out several possible conclusions.
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