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• plural of entitlement.

entitlements

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1. Federal programs, such as Social Security (see also Social Security), Medicare (see also Medicare) and Medicaid, that disburse money according to fixed formulas to citizens who fall into designated categories. Because entitlements do not require annual congressional appropriations, their cost tends to rise steadily and, in the view of some, out of control.

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That meant that through one's career, we earned entitlements to a decent pension set at a fixed proportion of salary.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

More than half of the calls have been about pay and other contractual entitlements while in the war zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Any security mitigation, however, will bump up against the fact that those entitlements are what make agents so useful in the first place.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Efforts to deal with fiscal policy, entitlements and other critical issues have floundered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

It was, as you might suppose, a person of antiquarian pursuits who said this, but, since he merely appears in this prologue, there is no need to give his entitlements.

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)