Usually means: Necessarily involve as a consequence.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word entail:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. entail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. entail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. entail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. entail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Entail, entail: Wordnik
  7. entail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. entail: Wiktionary
  9. entail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. entail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. entail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. entail: Dictionary.com
  13. entail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. entail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Entail (disambiguation), Entail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Entail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. entail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. entail: Rhymezone
  19. entail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. entail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. entail: Free Dictionary
  22. entail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. entail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. entail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Entail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. entail: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. entail: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entail: Genealogy Glossary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entail: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
verb:  (transitive) 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 a heritage.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
noun:  That which is entailed.
noun:  An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
noun:  The rule by which the descent is fixed.
noun:  (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

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