ENTITLEMENT

entitlement

(noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits); “entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

entitlement (countable and uncountable, plural entitlements)

The right to have something, whether actual or perceived.

Power, authority to do something.

Something that one is entitled to.

(politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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