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# entitlement

«entitlement» in Mova's school dictionary: **something you have a right to have or do, like holiday…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an entitlement, entitlements; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An entitlement is something you have a right to have or do, like holiday time or free meals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#m1)

2) Entitlement can mean the feeling that you deserve special treatment, even when you do not; this sense is disapproving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and formal speech: holiday entitlement, benefit entitlement. In stories a spoiled character may show a sense of entitlement. In maths: entitlement may be a number of days or an amount of money to work out. Phrases: holiday entitlement, sense of entitlement, entitlement to.

### examples

- Workers have an entitlement of 25 days' holiday a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x1)
- Pupils from low-income families have an entitlement to free meals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x2)
- His sense of entitlement annoyed everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x3)
- Check your entitlement before you apply. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x4)
- She used all her holiday entitlement in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x5)
- The spoiled prince acted with entitlement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/#x6)

### note

Comes from "entitled" (having a right to). Countable or uncountable. Careful: "entitled" can also mean behaving as if you deserve more, which is a criticism. In maths: entitlement minus days used = days left.

### In the corpora

- ["Entitlement reform" means cutting pensions and welfare (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entitlement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitlement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.