Entitlement

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of entitling.
  • n. The state of being entitled.
  • n. A government program that guarantees and provides benefits to a particular group: "fights . . . to preserve victories won a generation ago, like the Medicaid entitlement for the poor” ( Jason DeParle).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the right to have something
  • n. something that one is entitled to
  • n. a legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a right granted by law or contract, especially to financial benefits from the government.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    title    claim   
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