verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be eligible/entitled to vote
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All those aged 18 or over are eligible to vote.
be entitled to a discount (= have the right to get a discount )
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Staff are entitled to a 20% discount.
be entitled to leave (= be allowed to have as leave )
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After five years, employees are entitled to 25 days’ leave.
everyone is entitled to their opinion (= used especially when politely disagreeing with what someone says )
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Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I can't accept what he is saying.
sb is entitled to expect sth (= have the right to think something will happen )
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You’re entitled to expect decent service at these prices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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Twenty percent of pensioners do not take up benefits that they are entitled to .
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But what's she entitled to financially?
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And is there a relatively simple means of knowing what the transfer value is that you are entitled to ?
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This would result in those already unfortunate in having one handicap then being less entitled to further medical care.
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In this country, married women with no work outside the home are entitled to precisely nothing!
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He comes into the bureau to ask what income he is entitled to.
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Even reasonably just states claim more extensive authority than they are entitled to by that criterion.
■ NOUN
account
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They are entitled to take into account the credit histories of people living at those addresses with the same surname as you.
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They are entitled to take into account a variety of selection factors.
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In my judgment the judge was fully entitled to take into account the matters which she there expressed.
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Silkin replied that it was a factor which he was entitled to take into account .
allowance
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Employees who are not at present house-owners may be entitled to a mortgage allowance in certain exceptional circumstances.
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Parties and witnesses are entitled to allowances for loss of earnings, subsistence and travel to and from the tribunal.
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If he does not, the customer is entitled to their part-exchange allowance instead.
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If you were entitled to maternity allowance , invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
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Everyone is entitled to a personal allowance .
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All the teachers in 1987 who were entitled to an allowance received one.
benefit
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Insured workers who are off sick are entitled to draw sickness benefit .
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This could help as many as 70 percent of state workers who reportedly change jobs before they are entitled to retirement benefits .
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If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit .
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Every defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
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Class 2 and Class 4 contributions are paid by self-employed persons who are entitled to all contributory benefits except unemployment benefits.
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Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit .
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However, it has been estimated that around one in five of pensioners entitled to these benefits do not actually claim them.
buyer
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It was held that this did not entitle the buyers to reject the whole consignment.
company
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Service agreements sometimes include a provision entitling the company to dismiss in the event of long-term incapacity.
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Furthermore, Mr Shove was entitled to charge the company for private petrol.
compensation
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Lambeth Tessa holders could now be entitled to backdated compensation .
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A teacher who worked without a contract would generally meet these requirements and thus be entitled to compensation for teaching services.
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Should this happen, you may be entitled to compensation providing you have been with the firm for more than two years.
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You may also be entitled to claim compensation under a personal accident insurance policy arranged by you or your employer.
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After that you're entitled to compensation only.
damages
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Therefore the buyer had accepted the car and was entitled only to damages .
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If they prevail, they are entitled to compensatory damages .
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In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit.
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Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors.
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The seller was entitled to damages .
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Primafacie X is entitled to £5 damages .
discount
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Readers who book residential accommodation will be entitled to £20 discount per person, per night.
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Mr. Portillo A local authority will record those people who step forward as being entitled to single-person discounts .
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Attendance on both days entitles you to a discount of over £50.
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Single people have every reason to come forward and declare that they are entitled to a discount .
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Where will the list be of people who are entitled to a discount ?
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How will a local authority find out who is entitled to a discount ?
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These priority households were also entitled to a discount from the land element in the finished dwelling.
employee
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The contract might then specify that each year of service entitles the employee to one-eightieth of that figure.
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An employer is entitled to dismiss an employee for misconduct.
interest
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It follows that the defendant will be entitled to the interest it has earned on deposit up to the point of acceptance.
law
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Now I am fully entitled under the laws of this state to regard your affairs as confidential.
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How many breaks I am entitled to under the law ? &038;.
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Prisoners are being denied the food, water, sleep, and legal help they are entitled to under Czech law .
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The deception charged ought to have been that the accused was entitled in law to sell.
member
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Hiway will be entitled to designate one member to serve on Verio's Board of Directors.
money
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He was not entitled to withdraw the money in his account if he had obtained it by means of a false cheque.
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You are entitled to a money refund for breach of contract.
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You are entitled to your money back only if you reject the goods immediately.
opinion
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He is entitled to have an opinion .
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Well, they're entitled to their opinion .
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Mr.Peavey is entitled to his opinion .
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Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling.
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Monty influenced Susannah and she became convinced that she was entitled to scientific opinions regarding a subject she knew nothing about.
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He's entitled to his own opinions .
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After all everyone is entitled to their own opinion are they not?
payment
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Clearly, he will be entitled to an interim payment .
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As an outcome of the 1982 meeting, a document was prepared entitled Nutrition Services Payment System.
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If we fail to do this you will be entitled to a payment of £5.00. 2.
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A director is not an employee of the company and is not entitled to preferential payment when the company goes into liquidation.
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The creditor is entitled to further payments from that date at the said rate.
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B was therefore entitled to no damages for late delivery, and S was not entitled to contract payment .
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The bank was entitled to refuse payment .
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Thus, Crown servants are not entitled to statutory redundancy payments , but most have the right not to be unfairly dismissed.
pension
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Married women who have never worked are also entitled to a pension on their husband's contributions.
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The judgment held that men and women were entitled to the same pension from the same age.
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She is entitled to a pension and a police injury award worth about £20,000 a year for life.
person
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An author who has not approved the apology is entitled to sue the person who has issued it.
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Co-ownership Co-ownership entitles two or more persons concurrently to the possession and enjoyment of the same land.
plaintiff
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The Court of Appeal held that this was sufficient to entitle the plaintiffs to an interlocutory injunction.
protection
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Police officers are entitled to the protection of the community they serve.
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You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will occur.
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Accordingly, the tenant whom we are here considering was entitled to the protection of section 3.
share
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If this could be shown to be the case they would have been entitled to a share purchase order from the Court.
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Shareholders of record on Feb. 15 will be entitled to one additional share for every share they own on that date.
tax
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If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit.
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The owner of the asset is entitled to the tax benefits from depreciation.
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This will normally mean that you are entitled to a tax rebate.
tenant
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This would entitle the tenant to have a new tenancy at the then prevailing market rent.
■ VERB
believe
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The cap applies not to what an authority spends but to what the Government believe an authority is entitled to spend.
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Ricardo believes his daughter is entitled to marry whomever she chooses.
claim
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He claimed to be entitled to rectification of the register both as against the Hammonds and as against the building society.
feel
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He was feeling entitled to feel quite sorry for himself.
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Others may yearn for life on a more even keel but they do not feel entitled to it.
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If electricity is a public service, all of the public feel equally entitled to benefit from it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Being a member entitles you to discounts on tickets.
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Ethiopian Jews were entitled to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, they had paid for their rations; they were entitled to them.
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Conversely, you may be entitled to disobey an instruction which management ostensibly has the power to give.
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How many breaks I am entitled to under the law? &.
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However, when the loan is repaid, the company is entitled to a refund of the corporation tax.
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I must give Bedwyr the trust and freedom to which he is entitled.
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Veterans are entitled to the best.
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Women not in immediate physical danger were considered privileged enough and therefore not entitled to aspire to or expect equality.