entail

3 definitions • 4 examples

to make something necessary, or to involve something:

Such a large investment inevitably entails some risk.

[ + -ing verb ] Repairing the roof will entail spending a lot of money.

to involve or make something necessary:

Any investment entails risk.

to create a legal condition that property can only be passed to particular people, for example, only to an oldest son:

entail sth to sb Due to a restrictive clause in an ancestor's will, the property was entailed to male-line descendants.