entails
Brings along necessarily
Entails means involves necessarily or as a consequence.
A plan entails certain steps; a decision entails risks: The project entails months of research.
In law, entail is a restriction limiting inheritance to a specific line of heirs, preventing property from being sold or willed elsewhere—a device common in British aristocratic families to keep estates intact.
Make unavoidable or essential
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- demandForceful request or requirement
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- compelForce to act
precondition · presuppose · requisite · contingent · dependent · conditional · involve · assume
Indirect suggestion or consequence
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- sufficiencyState of being enough
- consequentFollowing as an effect
antecedent · deduction · presupposition · syllogism · conditional · predicate · validity · soundness
Enforceable written agreement
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
- clauseProvision in agreement
liability · binding · covenant · statute · compliance · jurisdiction · testimony · precedent
What follows a cause
- outcomeFinal result of events
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
- repercussionIndirect result of action
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
aftermath · effect · corollary · upshot · fallout · sequela · byproduct · ensue
Property and grounds
- successionFollowing in order
- primogenitureEldest inherits all
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- heirOne who receives legacy
bequest · patrimony · birthright · endowment · trust · will · executor · devolve
necessitate
Make unavoidable or essential
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- demandForceful request or requirement
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
compel · precondition · presuppose · requisite · contingent · dependent · conditional · involve · assume · require
implication
Indirect suggestion or consequence
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- sufficiencyState of being enough
consequent · antecedent · deduction · presupposition · syllogism · conditional · predicate · validity · soundness · contrapositive
contract
Enforceable written agreement
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
clause · liability · binding · covenant · statute · compliance · jurisdiction · testimony · precedent · adjudicate
result
What follows a cause
- outcomeFinal result of events
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
- repercussionIndirect result of action
implication · aftermath · effect · corollary · upshot · fallout · sequela · byproduct · ensue · follow
estate
Property and grounds
- successionFollowing in order
- primogenitureEldest inherits all
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
heir · bequest · patrimony · birthright · endowment · trust · will · executor · devolve · transmit
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference