entail
verb /ɪnˈteɪl/
/ɪnˈteɪl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they entail | /ɪnˈteɪl/ /ɪnˈteɪl/ |
| he / she / it entails | /ɪnˈteɪlz/ /ɪnˈteɪlz/ |
| past simple entailed | /ɪnˈteɪld/ /ɪnˈteɪld/ |
| past participle entailed | /ɪnˈteɪld/ /ɪnˈteɪld/ |
| -ing form entailing | /ɪnˈteɪlɪŋ/ /ɪnˈteɪlɪŋ/ |
- to involve something that cannot be avoided synonym involve
- entail something The job entails a lot of hard work.
- What does the job actually entail?
- be entailed in something The girls learn exactly what is entailed in caring for a newborn baby.
- entail (somebody) doing something It will entail driving a long distance every day.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actually
- inevitably
- necessarily
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (referring to settlement of property; formerly also as intail): from en-, in- ‘into’ + Old French taille ‘notch, tax’, from taillier ‘to cut’, based on Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’.