英语词汇“entitlement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

An entitlement is the right to a particular privilege or benefit, granted by law or custom. You have a legal entitlement to speak to a lawyer if you're ever arrested and put in jail.

Your entitlement program at work might offer various benefits, or you might receive a medical entitlement once you reach a certain age. These are just basic things you get. More recently, entitlement has taken on a critical sense. If someone has a sense of entitlement, that means the person believes he deserves certain privileges — and he's arrogant about it. The term "culture of entitlement" suggests that many people now have highly unreasonable expectations about what they are entitled to.

WORD FAMILY

entitlement: entitlements+/entitle: entitled, entitlement, entitles, entitling/entitled: unentitled/subtitle: subtitled, subtitles, subtitling/supertitle: supertitles/title: entitle, subtitle, supertitle, titled, titles, titling, titulary/titled: untitled

USAGE EXAMPLES

We looked at state schools ranked by free school meal entitlement.

BBC(Jan 01, 2017)

In addition, the rules would require House committee chairmen to propose ways of imposing more fiscal discipline on federal entitlement programs.

New York Times(Dec 31, 2016)

The charitable ethics and sense of entitlement of the next president are well-known by now.

Salon(Dec 28, 2016)

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

entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget

Hyper

claim, title

an established or recognized right

单词	entitlement
释义	entitlement (once / 6840 pages) n An entitlement is the right to a particular privilege or benefit, granted by law or custom. You have a legal entitlement to speak to a lawyer if you're ever arrested and put in jail. Your entitlement program at work might offer various benefits, or you might receive a medical entitlement once you reach a certain age. These are just basic things you get. More recently, entitlement has taken on a critical sense. If someone has a sense of entitlement, that means the person believes he deserves certain privileges — and he's arrogant about it. The term "culture of entitlement" suggests that many people now have highly unreasonable expectations about what they are entitled to. WORD FAMILY entitlement: entitlements+/entitle: entitled, entitlement, entitles, entitling/entitled: unentitled/subtitle: subtitled, subtitles, subtitling/supertitle: supertitles/title: entitle, subtitle, supertitle, titled, titles, titling, titulary/titled: untitled USAGE EXAMPLES We looked at state schools ranked by free school meal entitlement. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) In addition, the rules would require House committee chairmen to propose ways of imposing more fiscal discipline on federal entitlement programs. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) The charitable ethics and sense of entitlement of the next president are well-known by now. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) n right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget Hyper claim, title an established or recognized right
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