to entail
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4.8
- verb
- /ɪnˈteɪl/
:
conllevar
- His new position will entail more responsibilities and longer working hours.
- entail a cost
- entail substantial risks
- entail significant sacrifices
It's going to cause it's going to entail some pain, some sacrifice.
- It's going to cause it's going to entail some pain, some sacrifice.
- And I'll be very surprised if that doesn't entail other life forms.
- And what did that entail spending two years with them?
- And that does not entail comparing yourself to other people.
- We are more unbalanced, but this imbalance also entails growth potential.
- Now this entails your relationship with yourself.
- Now you have to realize what this would entail.
- P entails Q, and yet Q doesn't have to be true.
- Now when you say gross, what does that entail?
- Yeah, For all the good and bad that that entails.
- I didn't know what it was and kind of what it entailed.
- And if you thought Iraq was bad, think about what bombing Iran will entail.
Examples
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What exactly does your job entail?
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I'm not so sure exactly what finishing the second look is gonna entail.
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What exactly does working for you entail, Senator?
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And what would that entail?
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What exactly does this entail?
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And what exactly does that entail?
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Now we all know in this House citizenship also entails obligations as well as rights.
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Which entails social, economic, and political transformations.
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But it's really important that you understand what that entails on the macro level of your finances.
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For example, in an alcohol metabolism unit, a case was provided that entailed students consuming alcohol.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
∞
3.5
Lead to a particular result
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4.1
Show that one thing must be true if another is true
41
6.9
Make something else necessary or cause it to happen
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6.3
To make something needed as a result
Antonyms
How Necessary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Entail comes from an old French verb entailer meaning 'to cut', and a helpful image is one thing 'cutting in' and forcing another thing to follow. So, when something entails another, it necessarily brings that thing along as a result.