Definitions for entailment

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entailment en·tail·ment

Spelling: [en-teyl-muh nt]

IPA: /ɛnˈteɪl mənt/

Entailment is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 425 anagrams from letters in entailment (aeeilmnntt).

Definitions for entailment

noun

1. the act or fact of entailing, or involving by necessity or as a consequence:
2. something involved as a necessary part or consequence of something:
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 .

Origin of entailment

entail + -ment

Examples for entailment

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

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