entailing

Making something necessary

Entailing means involving as a necessary part or consequence.

A plan entails certain costs; a decision entails risks.

The job entails frequent travel.

In law, entailing property means restricting its inheritance to a specified line of heirs, preventing it from being sold or willed freely.

implication

implying

Suggesting without stating directly

signifying · connoting · meaning · involving · necessitating · assuming · inferring · hinting · portending · foreshadowing

requirement

requiring

Making mandatory or needed

obligating · compelling · calling for · dictating · imposing · stipulating · prerequisite · precondition · condition · essential

consequence

resulting

Following as effect

bringing about · occasioning · generating · yielding · precipitating · triggering · giving rise to · culminating · ensuing · following

inheritance

estate

Property and grounds

primogeniture · patrimony · birthright · lineage · descendant · property · title · legacy · peerage · aristocracy

Opposites
logical necessity

entailingprecluding

Making impossible beforehand

ruling out · excluding · negating · preventing · contradicting

inclusion vs. exclusion

entailingexcluding

Leaving something out

omitting · leaving out · exempting · excepting · eliminating

obligation/requirement

entailingwaiving

Voluntarily abandoning entitlement

forgoing · releasing · excusing · sparing

Family

entail, entails, entailed, entailment, entailments

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