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entitlement is a noun meaning "right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)". It carries one recorded sense.
right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)
“entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget”
law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for entitlement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.