noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
entitlement program
leave entitlement (= the amount of time that you are allowed to spend away from work on holidays etc )
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The normal paid leave entitlement is 20 days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
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Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit.
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In such cases there is no automatic entitlement to costs.
federal
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And so, for the first time, a federal entitlement has been rescinded.
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That, she said, may be seen as creating a new federal entitlement .
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Republicans have fallen short of their goals to dramatically roll back the federal health-care entitlements Waxman ushered into law.
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Eligibility Federal law Federal entitlement to benefits is eliminated.
full
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A solicitor can interpret the law for you and help you take advantage of your full legal entitlement to reliefs and allowances.
legal
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The auction house had been assured by their legal advisors that the current owners of the work had legal entitlement .
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A solicitor can interpret the law for you and help you take advantage of your full legal entitlement to reliefs and allowances.
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His main point was simply that legal entitlements - property rights - can be bought and sold.
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The precise formula for working out who is eligible depends upon the legal entitlement in question.
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The language of rights evokes the context of legal entitlement backed up by civil enforcement.
■ NOUN
benefit
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Your income will be added together and any benefit entitlement will be split equally between you.
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The Secretary of State concluded that students were now being more than compensated for the loss of their benefit entitlement .
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The researcher has constructed computer models which predict tax and benefit entitlement under the present system, and after any possible reforms.
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They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days, but this time limit is frequently exceeded.
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To be exempt from taxation the trust must meet Inland Revenue conditions relating to contributions and benefit entitlement .
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What is more, they would get absolutely nothing in benefit entitlement for this purported contribution.
holiday
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As well as your annual holiday entitlement , the Company observes the usual statutory bank and public holidays.
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Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay, pension schemes and holiday entitlements .
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Benefits include generous holiday entitlement , interest free season ticket loan and excellent sports and social facilities.
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Holidays Holiday entitlement differs slightly according to job level, age and length of service.
pension
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There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements .
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Each order is your pension entitlement for one week and is valid for 12 weeks after the date shown on the voucher.
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The research seeks to understand what factors influence older women's employment and their pension entitlements .
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The Government should review its own employees' retirement age and early pension entitlements to allow older people greater choice.
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Wealth, other than pension entitlements , can be quickly turned into cash or used as security against which to borrow.
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Different schemes have different ways of determining how members' pension entitlements are calculated.
program
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The big entitlement programs should be privatized, he says, leaving only a low safety net for the indigent.
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The nation has lost control of federal spending mainly to ever-expanding entitlement programs .
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But they miscalculated by targeting popular entitlement programs .
■ VERB
lose
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Trainees don't lose their entitlement to benefit and employers get a better idea of what they're like.
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If an employee refuses the offer of another identical job he loses redundancy entitlement .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Holiday entitlements for temporary workers are less than for permanent staff.
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Many people are still not aware of the entitlements they may be able to receive.
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The amount of money you earn does not affect your entitlement to child benefit for your children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so, for the first time, a federal entitlement has been rescinded.
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It is the attitude, the sense of entitlement that allows for relaxing maternal management.
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Not even Jack Kemp could credibly explain how the Dole plan would work without tapping entitlements like Medicare or busting the budget.
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Thanks to pay-for-knowledge, Joe has recouped more than he lost as a result of the end of entitlement .
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The end of entitlement is perhaps best demonstrated by the introduction of the Social Fund in the social security reforms of 1988.
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The influence of the notion of entitlement when applied to the curriculum is, as we have seen, attractive.
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The patients charter sets out clearly the entitlement of a patient and the standard we seek to set for ambulance services.
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What was once an economically viable privilege becomes an economically unviable entitlement .