entail
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A settlement of land upon a person and a specified line of their descendants that restricts alienation.
The ancestral estate was tied up in an entail preventing any heir from selling it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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