entitlement

Noun

Meaning

right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

liberty diadem right due property title perk authority claim freedom option ownership license permission franchise
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Antonyms

loss reason responsibility ban imprisonment rejection
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Hypernyms

title claim

Phrases with the word

entitlement to share entitlement tax entitlement spending entitlement achieved by someone's death entitlement of individual to vote entitlement of a man to vote

Examples

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. Richard Perle

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. Brené Brown

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. Ben Bernanke

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. Chris Chocola

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them. John Elkann

Close letter words and terms

entitled to live entitledness entitlee entitlement achieved by someone's death entitlement of a man to vote entitlement of individual to vote