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Meaning of 'entail'
Meaning of 'entail' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Entail 
[ n.]
- That which is entailed. [ n.]- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.
- Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
- To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
- To appoint hereditary possessor.
- To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
Meaning of 'entail' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. entail [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- have as a logical consequence
- have as a logical consequence
Example in sentence:
- The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Meaning (2):
- impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
- impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
Example in sentence:
- What does this move entail?
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