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What does entail mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word entail? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To imply or require.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Noun
  1. That which is entailed. Hence:
    1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  2. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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