Question 1 · Quick check
entail
CEFRC1
/ɛnˈteɪl/
verb · noun
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To involve something as a necessary part or result.
- 02
verb
Extra detailTo appoint hereditary possessor.
Examples
The project will entail great expense upon the company.
What does your job entail?
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- /enˈtæɪl/
- /ɪnˈtæɪl/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo 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.
To imply, require, or invoke.
noun
Extra meaningThat which is entailed.
More examples
In context1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
Quick test
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Origin
verb
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).