| 单词 | entitlement spending |
| 释义 | > as lemmasentitlement spending C1. General attributive, esp. in sense 1b, as entitlement reform, entitlement spending, etc. ΚΠ 1952 Panama City (Florida) News-Herald 10 July 1/4 Built with federal entitlement funds, seven classrooms now accommodate approximately 35 children to each room. 1955 Financial Times 21 May 5/6 The Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers announced here to-day that the entitlement period would be 13 weeks for workers with 12 months' service, rising to 26 weeks after 10 years' service. 1974 Washington Post 7 Sept. d7/3 The D.C. Commission on the Arts ‘had barely made the effort to receive entitlement money from the National Endowment for the Arts’. 1990 Economist 30 June 42/1 Discretionary spending..has been squeezed by rising entitlement spending and interest costs. 2011 A. Morisy Borrowing from Future iii. 45 He made the case that entitlement reform was both a philosophical and moral issue. < as lemmas |
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