Usually means: Necessarily follows from something else.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. entails: Merriam-Webster
  2. entails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. entails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Entails, entails: Wordnik
  5. entails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. entails: Wiktionary
  7. entails: Dictionary.com
  8. entails: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. entails: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. entails: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. entails: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entails: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (entail)

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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