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US
/ɛnˈtaɪtəɫmənt/
]
[ UK /ɛntˈaɪtəlmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɛntˈaɪtəlmənt/ ]
NOUN
-
right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)
entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget
How To Use entitlement In A Sentence
- There is also a great deal on workers' rights and social entitlements.
- We are determined to ensure that the legal entitlements owed to Australian workers are delivered.
- We also believe that Fannie should have guidelines allowing servicers to proceed on a foreclosure only when its legal entitlement to foreclose is clearly documented. Dems To Fannie Mae: Why Are You Feeding Foreclosure Mills?
- The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
- It has been claimed that it did not fall within the rules pertaining to MPs' travel entitlements.
- As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
- Taking part in this course will not affect your social welfare entitlements.
- Do you need advice on your entitlement to state benefits?
- The Government has decided the nature of service for Operation Falconer is warlike for the purpose of conditions of service entitlements.
- The unfunded liabilities in entitlement schemes are already showing that they're reaching their tipping points a decade earlier than projected; for the last five months, Social Security has taken in less money into the "trust fund" than it has disbursed - in other words, the tipping point predicted (variously) in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, etc - it is here and now: social security is now having to be made whole by the general fund. Latest Articles