entitlement
/ənˈtaɪtəlmənt/
entitlement noun: the right to have something.
Noun
entitlement (countable and uncountable, plural entitlements)
- The right to have something.
- A person's perceived but unjustified right to something; a tendency to claim what one does not deserve.
- The auxiliary members of the royal family often have the greatest capacity to inflame public scepticism about monarchy, and Prince Harry once seemed determined to personify the entitlement and pointlessness that could have jeopardised the continuity of the crown.2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in The Guardian
- Power, an authority to do something.
- Something to which one is entitled.
- 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.
entitlement meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
entitlement in Tamil
- உரிமை வழங்கல், உரிமைத் தகுதி, உரியன வழங்கல், உரிமைத்துவம், உரிமைப்பாடு, உரிமைத்தனம்
entitlement in Urdu
- رتبہ
entitlement in Bengali
- আইনি, ন্যায়সঙ্গত অধিকার, প্রাপ্য সুবিধা, ভাতার অধিকার
entitlement in Malayalam
- prerogative, right, claim
- അവകാശം, അർഹത, അർഹത്വം, രിക്ഥം, പ്രത്യേകാവകാശം, അനുഭവാവകാശം
- allocation, allowance, quota
- ആനുകൂല്യം, പങ്ക്, വീതം, ഓഹരി, കൊൾമുറപ്പാട്, നിശ്ചിത വിഹിതം
More languagesFewer languages
- entitlement in Kannada
- ಅರ್ಹತೆ
- entitlement in Punjabi
- ਹੱਕਦਾਰੀ
- entitlement in Gujarati
- હકદારી
Examples of entitlement in a sentence
- It's only a matter of time until their deluded sense of entitlement hits up against reality.
- Serenades pitch woo or pitch for whatever entitlement the serenader is looking for.
- People feel entitled to their entitlement, and frequently feel defensive when it is challenged.
Forms of entitlement
| plural | entitlements |
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Origin of entitlement
From entitle + -ment.
Words formed from entitlement
Questions about entitlement
- What does entitlement mean?
- Entitlement means the right to have something.
- What is entitlement in Tamil?
- Entitlement in Tamil is உரிமை வழங்கல், உரிமைத் தகுதி, உரியன வழங்கல். See Entitlement meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is entitlement?
- Entitlement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce entitlement?
- Entitlement is pronounced /ənˈtaɪtəlmənt/.
- What is the plural of entitlement?
- The plural of entitlement is entitlements.
Words near entitlement in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: entitlement (page history and authors); entitlement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entitlement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entitlement (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entitlement (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); entitlement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entitlement (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entitlement (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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