verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
involve/entail risk
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Investments that provide a high return generally entail more risk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward's plans.
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Going out for a drink meant more than that it also entailed eating out.
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Loans between banks also entailed modest capital requirements.
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Empowerment also entails being given the opportunity to fail.
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Collective entrepreneurship also entails a different organizational structure.
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It would also entail another meeting between them, a small voice inside told her, shocking her with its message.
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This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.
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Labov's work to redeem, as it were, underprivileged speech also entailed a revealing critique of more privileged forms.
necessarily
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It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated.
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Attention to discourse does not necessarily entail sacrificing the traditional emphasis on pronunciation and writing, grammar and vocabulary.
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This necessarily entails longer term assistance in comparatively stable situations.
■ NOUN
job
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I thought you understood what this job entailed .
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Their ambivalence about career choices is coupled with scanty knowledge about what such jobs actually entail or what their educational requirements are.
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My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway.
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She was here to do a job , and doing her job properly entailed keeping her personal feelings strictly under control.
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Few among them could have known what the job entailed .
loss
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Pricing at marginal cost might equate marginal cost and benefit but would entail losses .
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Will production entail profits or losses ?
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Given these factors, any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland.
risk
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For these reasons international trade entails a greater risk of non-performance of a contract and non-payment on completion.
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Everyday communication over phone and fax lines entails security risks .
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The older method entailed the risk of being buried alive by collapsing river banks.
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Because they want high yields, and as I have pointed out many times, a higher return generally entails more risk .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I didn't want to take on a job that would entail a lot of travelling.
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Repairs would entail the closure of the bridge for six months.
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The job entailed being on call twenty-four hours a day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A text would entail its interpretation only if meaning was exhausted by sense, the coded or literal meanings studied by semantics.
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Every value distribution entails trade-offs between different values as well as some inequality in the distribution of benefits and burdens.
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I found I was expected to make progress, entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads.
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I thought you understood what this job entailed.
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It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated.
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The leadership role entails taking the initiative in formulating, articulating, and implementing goals for the political system.
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This was important because many of the staff did not fully understand what the role entailed.
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To bring the site up to the standard necessary for the positioning of bottle and paper banks would entail greater expenditure.