entailment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
    deduction; implication.
    • his resignation had political implications

WordNet


En*tail"ment noun
Definitions
  1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  2. The condition of being entailed.
  3. A thing entailed.
    Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Webster 1913