to involve sth that cannot be avoided:
[VN] The job entails a lot of hard work. * The girls learn exactly what is entailed in caring for a newborn baby. * [V-ing] It will entail driving a long distance every day. [also VN-ing]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for entail is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is entail a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, entail is tagged as verb.
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