entitlement
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.
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.
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.
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.
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How to use entitlement in a sentence
As a result, traditional dance forms like Bharatanatyam and Kathak were appropriated and turned into fiefdoms of upper-caste entitlement.
No Dirty Dancing: India’s Classical Dancers Break Caste Taboos | Charu Kasturi | December 4, 2020 | OzySuch language is not only dismissive of our identities, but also reveals a deep hostility to our entitlement to equal protection of the law.
Barrett dodges on same-sex marriage, downplays ties to anti-LGBTQ law firm | Chris Johnson | October 13, 2020 | Washington BladeEven in North Carolina, he adds, it takes builders a year to buy a tract of land, get all the entitlements in place, add roads and sewers, then put up the homes.
Housing flips the recession script: Prices will keep rising for up to a year, but here’s how the party will end | Shawn Tully | October 4, 2020 | FortuneThe new entitlement will allow employees to take paid time off for part or all of 12 weeks over a 12-month period, effective with births, adoptions or foster placements that occur Thursday and after.
Starting Thursday, most federal employees are eligible for paid parental leave | Eric Yoder | October 1, 2020 | Washington PostAfter all, their companies have so skewed the meaning of being an employee by instilling such a sense of entitlement that this kind of response is predictable.
The complaints of the entitled workers of Silicon Valley | Adam Lashinsky | September 8, 2020 | Fortune
In one of the most distressing events of the year, nerd entitlement hit 100.
10 Things That Made Us Want to Turn Off the Internet Forever in 2014 | The Daily Beast | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn their elitism and sense of entitlement, they represent much of what liberals are supposed to despise.
The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple | James Kirchick | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBecause Medicaid is not required to cover HCBS, because a waiver is not an entitlement, there are long waits for waivers.
Medicaid Will Give You Money for At-Home Care, but You Might Wait Years | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo broad-based federal entitlement program has ever been eliminated.
If only she could lose the humble bragging and the entitlement.
I deduce all right and all entitlement from myself; I am entitled to everything that I have might over.
Anarchism | Paul EltzbacherWe increase spending next year for Social Security and Medicare and other entitlement programs by $81 billion.
State of the Union Addresses of George W. Bush | George W. BushThe entitlement programs that make up our safety net for the truly needy have worthy goals and many deserving recipients.
We increase spending next year for Social Security and Medicare, and other entitlement programs, by $81 billion.
But I knows just from looking at him that he's too old for such a fancy entitlement as that.
J. Poindexter, Colored | Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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