entitlement
Americannoun
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the act of giving, or the state of having, a title, right, or claim to something.
She supported legislation to improve the lot of the elderly, including the entitlement of senior citizens to vote by absentee ballot.
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a provision, amount, etc., to which one is entitled; a right.
A good education is the moral entitlement of every child.
Temporary teachers receive most of the entitlements of permanent teachers, including annual salary, on a prorated basis.
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a government program, such as Social Security or unemployment insurance, that provides a benefit to eligible participants, or the benefit provided by such a program.
Eligibility for this insurance program will be affected if there is also a Medicare entitlement.
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the unjustified assumption that one has a right to certain advantages, preferential treatment, etc..
"Their sense of entitlement—I don't want to call it arrogance—makes dealing with some people difficult,'' said the senator.
Etymology
Origin of entitlement
Example Sentences
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"There is a feeling of entitlement we have in our club," he said in a news conference on Friday.
From BBC
For politicians, trying to reform the veteran disability system and America’s other broken entitlement programs can seem like picking up a grenade.
One contract we saw suggests that some locals have signed away their entitlement to any further compensation when they accepted these initial payments.
From BBC
Honestly, the whole discussion reeks of College Football Brain, that cross-affliction of entitlement and exceptionalism in which the most bizarre circumstances are treated as routine business.
Slowing productivity growth, together with growing government obligations, could force policymakers to make difficult decisions around taxation, public spending, and entitlement outlays, Vanguard’s Schickling says.
From Barron's
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