1. Things that are involved as a necessary or inevitable consequence or result of something else.
Usage: Plural form of entailment; commonly used in logic, philosophy, and everyday discourse.
2. In logic, statements or propositions that logically follow from or are necessarily implied by other statements.
Usage: Technical usage in formal logic and philosophy.
3. In law, the settlement of an estate on a person and their descendants in a fixed order of succession.
Usage: Legal/historical usage; less common in modern contexts.

Examples

• The entailments of climate change include rising sea levels and more frequent storms.
• Taking on a mortgage has significant financial entailments that you should consider carefully.
• The logical entailments of that premise are troubling.
• She understood the entailments of her decision to move abroad.
• The contract's entailments were explained in detail by the lawyer.
• What are the practical entailments of this new policy?