ENTAILED Definition & Meaning

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entailed

[ en-teyld ]

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adjective

involved with or following from something by logical necessity or as a consequence:
Most of the public complied with the curfew restrictions despite the entailed inconvenience.
If the entailed proposition turns out to be false, the theory that generated it must also be false.
Law. (of real estate) limited to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else:
This entailed estate has belonged to the family for a period of 300 years.
Law. descending to a fixed series of possessors, as a title, the crown, etc.:
On the death of his uncle Edward, Duke of York, Richard acquired the entailed title of his grandfather Edmund, Duke of York.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of entail.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of entailed¹

First recorded in 1525–35; entail ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; entail ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

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The exhilaration I came to experience entailed a fair amount of exasperation.

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“It entailed the two of them educating each other in the art of songwriting and doing so from scratch,” Leslie writes.

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“I have to be honest about what I went through in my marriage with Terry as Hulk Hogan and what it entailed and what it has caused over the years and everything else,” Linda said.

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Once they had that structure, the process entailed discussing when and how to spend time with each of the characters without prioritizing one over another.

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In an email Wednesday afternoon, ICE said its “enhanced enforcement operations” have netted enough arrests to “require greater detention capacity,” though the agency did not provide information on what that entailed.

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