as in subsidy
a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action
entitlements to local school districts
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Recent Examples of entitlement
The company is actively seeking entitlements to enhance the value of these properties before sale.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The frustrations with this U.S. men’s national team have been simmering for some time, built not just through a series of underwhelming performances, but also in a growing perception of complacency and entitlement.
—Paul Tenorio, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
The estimate includes permitting and entitlement work, demolition, construction costs and contingency costs.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Musk has cast the idea as one that’s primarily about immigration, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes.
—Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The frustrations with this U.S. men’s national team have been simmering for some time, built not just through a series of underwhelming performances, but also in a growing perception of complacency and entitlement.
—Paul Tenorio, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
The estimate includes permitting and entitlement work, demolition, construction costs and contingency costs.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Musk has cast the idea as one that’s primarily about immigration, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes.
—Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entitlement
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In Europe, the company is facing a European Union investigation into whether China provided unfair subsidies to a BYD plant in Hungary, according to a Financial Times report.—
Yue Wang,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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As penny-pinching became even more vital coming out of the strikes, productions are increasingly opting to shoot in regions with more generous subsidies for Hollywood.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2025
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In the last four years, the county has won more than $22 million in grants from the state of Florida focused on stormwater pollution and flooding.—
Courtney Heath,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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Uplift Wisconsin, a call line operated through Mental Health of Wisconsin, will be shut down by April 4 because its COVID-19 grant was canceled, according to reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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Boxing Boxing is a great way to burn calories and get in your cardio exercise allotment.—
Sarah Bence,
Verywell Health,
4 Mar. 2025
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The News reported Sunday that in July the two officers discovered an allotment of 5,000 bullets purchased by the Department of Probation for firearms training at the range couldn’t be located.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Germain emphasized that while fraud in the program was rare, the layoffs left states with no federal oversight, raising questions about how funds will be managed when the current appropriation expires in September.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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In 1974, after President Richard Nixon refused to spend money as directed by appropriations laws, Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act to clarify that no President can unilaterally withhold such funds.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Entitlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entitlement. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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