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entitlement

/en-tahy-tl-muhnt/US // ɛnˈtaɪ tl mənt //

应享权利,资格,权益,权利

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of entitling.
    • : the state of being entitled.
    • : the right to guaranteed benefits under a government program, as Social Security or unemployment compensation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlicense
as inprivilege

Examples

  • As a result, traditional dance forms like Bharatanatyam and Kathak were appropriated and turned into fiefdoms of upper-caste entitlement.

  • Such language is not only dismissive of our identities, but also reveals a deep hostility to our entitlement to equal protection of the law.

  • Even 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.

  • The 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.

  • After 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.

  • In one of the most distressing events of the year, nerd entitlement hit 100.

  • In their elitism and sense of entitlement, they represent much of what liberals are supposed to despise.

  • Because Medicaid is not required to cover HCBS, because a waiver is not an entitlement, there are long waits for waivers.

  • No 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.

  • We increase spending next year for Social Security and Medicare and other entitlement programs by $81 billion.

  • The 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.