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• past tense form of entail.
• past participle of entail.

entailed

American  

[en-tayld] / ɛnˈteɪld /

adjective

1. involved with or following from something by logical necessity or as a consequence.

   Most of the public complied with the curfew restrictions despite the entailed inconvenience.

   If the entailed proposition turns out to be false, the theory that generated it must also be false.

2. Law. (of real estate) limited to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else.

   This entailed estate has belonged to the family for a period of 300 years.

3. Law. descending to a fixed series of possessors, as a title, the crown, etc..

   On the death of his uncle Edward, Duke of York, Richard acquired the entailed title of his grandfather Edmund, Duke of York.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of entail.

Other Word Forms

• nonentailed
  adjective
• unentailed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of entailed

First recorded in 1525–35; entail ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; entail ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

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entailed

The trips entailed hotel stays because he couldn’t manage the round-trip drive in a day.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Nobody scored more than 23 goals in the four seasons between 2018-19 and 2021-22, but the past four Golden Boots have all entailed between 27 and 36 goals.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

That entailed frequent calls to a large language model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

On Friday, the court's judges said the 2024 drone operation "entailed the use of South Korea's military capabilities for private purposes".

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Making these stamps must have entailed a great deal of work, and they surely weren’t manufactured just to print this single document.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond