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entails

The correct spelling is entails.

How to pronounce entails

verb

Say it like: Ent-ayl-s

The correct spelling is entails. To imply or require. For example: "This activity will entail careful attention to detail."

Usage Examples

This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To imply or require.
  2. 2.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. 3.To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. 4.To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

noun

  1. 1.That which is entailed. Hence:
  2. 2.Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

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