entailment

[ en-teyl-muhnt ]

noun

1. 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.

2. something involved as a necessary part or consequence of something:

   Long hours of work are an entailment of the job.

3. 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 Words From

• preen·tailment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of entailment¹

entail + -ment

Example Sentences

The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.

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Were Canaan's posterity to endure the entailment of its disabilities and woes, until the end of time?

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This arrangement was only in accordance with the original entailment of the property.

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Related Words

• consequence
• ramification
• repercussion
• residual
• result