entail

To involve something as a necessary part or result.

• The repairs entail extra costs.
• What does this role entail?
• Moving abroad entailed leaving all her friends behind.

How to use it: entail doing something (The job entails travelling abroad regularly.)

Similar words: involve, require, necessitate

Common phrases: entail extra work, entail considerable risk, entail additional costs, entail careful planning

To legally arrange for property to pass only to particular family members, preventing its sale or transfer to others.

• He decided to entail the estate.
• The land was entailed on the family's eldest sons.
• Could the owner sell property that had been entailed?

How to use it: entail something on someone (The owner entailed the estate on his male descendants.)

Common phrases: entail an estate, entail the property, entail family land