"Entendre" is a French word that means "to understand" or "to realize." It is often used in English to refer to a word or phrase that has a double meaning or can be understood in two different ways.
Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors. (nreionline.com)
The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason, which in 1793 placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion, in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar in the Church of Our Lady in Paris. (firstthings.com)
Throughout all of these works, Ward treats the word «till» with double entendre in both noun and verb form, representing both a receptacle for capital, and allusion to the hidden or unacknowledged labor required in its acquisition. (lehmannmaupin.com)