entailment
Americannoun
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the act or fact of entailing, or involving by necessity or as a consequence.
The logical entailment of this approach is that the right way to design a curriculum is to make it free of bias.
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something involved as a necessary part or consequence of something.
Long hours of work are an entailment of the job.
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Linguistics. a relationship between two sentences such that if the first is true, the second must also be true, as in Her son drives her to work every day and Her son knows how to drive .
Other Word Forms
- preentailment noun
Etymology
Origin of entailment
Example Sentences
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Lai, though, is interested in the strategic entailments of such usage.
From The New Yorker
They loved using the word "valet" with a hard "t" and learning the intricacies of an entailment.
From Los Angeles Times
And, it was just prior to this that England enacted statutes that enabled a type of property ownership called an “entailment,” which is often but not always related to noble titles.
From Forbes
Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.
From Project Gutenberg
Hence the practice of entailments in the feudal system.
From Project Gutenberg
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