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

Entitle \En*ti"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entitled; p. pr. & vb. n. Entitling.] [OF. entituler, F. intituler, LL. intitulare, fr. L. in + titulus title. See Title, and cf. Intitule.]

  1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book ``Commentaries;'' to entitle a man ``Honorable.''

    That which . . . we entitle patience.
    --Shak.

  2. To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

  3. To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.]

    The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself.
    --Milton.

    Syn: To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entitle

also intitle, late 14c., "to give a title to a chapter, book, etc.," from Anglo-French entitler, Old French entiteler "entitle, call" (Modern French intituler), from Late Latin intitulare "give a title or name to," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + titulus "title" (see title (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "to bestow (on a person) a rank or office" is mid-15c. Sense of "to give (someone) 'title' to an estate or property," hence to give that person a claim to possession or privilege, is mid-15c.; this now is used mostly in reference to circumstances and actions. Related: Entitled; entitling.

Wiktionary
entitle

vb. 1 give a title to 2 dignify by an honorary designation. 3 give authority (to do something) 4 give rightful ownership 5 give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

WordNet
entitle

  1. v. give the right to; "The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request your FBI file"

  2. give a title to [syn: title]

  3. give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility [syn: ennoble, gentle]

Usage examples of "entitle".

Its oneness must not be entitled to that of monad and point: for these the mind abstracts extension and numerical quantity and rests upon the very minutest possible, ending no doubt in the partless but still in something that began as a partible and is always lodged in something other than itself.

It is calculated that ever grown lion in South Africa kills for food, every year, between 200 and 300 harmless animals, and each one of which is as much entitled as the lion to the happiness of existence.

Eden and Troy dos Caras, either or both, were entitled to borrow, interest-free, up to a total of a half million dollars from the Membership Trust Fund.

This circumstance, however, though it carries with it the most serious importance, is not to prevent you from making your defence in a firm and collected manner, in the confidence that, as a British subject, you are entitled to, and will receive full justice from a British court.

The interest of a riparian owner in keeping the level of a navigable stream low enough to maintain a power head for his use was not one for which he was entitled to be compensated when the Government raised the level by erecting a dam to improve navigation.

His ability, his party devotion, his fearless services as the War Governor of a State which was disturbed with tumult and sedition, his conspicuous part in the Reconstruction contests in the Senate, all marked him as entitled to great consideration.

I think, idle surmises may be turned to support any opinion: when the hero of the fight, having placed the recent spoils in the sacred repository, having before him Jove himself, to whom they were consecrated, and Romulus, no contemptible witnesses in case of a false inscription, entitled himself Aulus Cornelius Cossus consul.

State nor an individual citizen is entitled to a remedy in the courts against an unconstitutional appropriation of national funds.

He simply indicated that all contractors who dealt with the Government were entitled to immunity from taxation upon such transactions.

United States was not entitled to a judicial hearing on his claim of citizenship, a person arrested and held for deportation is entitled to a day in court if he denies that he is an alien.

Where it directs a specific sum to be paid to a certain person, neither the Secretary of the Treasury nor any court has discretion to determine whether the person is entitled to receive it.

That was half of the one hundred and sixty acres entitled for homestead, and the only part that was productive at any one time under the dryland method of farming.

Upon these experiments involving the eye, what judgment is a plain man entitled to make?

The frowsy woman who sat at the desk in the lobby of the great Friederichsbad and sold bath tickets, not only insulted me twice every day, with rigid fidelity to her great trust, but she took trouble enough to cheat me out of a shilling, one day, to have fairly entitled her to ten.

Unions of Morrisiana, by defeating the Atlantics in two out of three games in the latter part of the season of 1867, became entitled to the nominal championship, which during the next two seasons was shifted back and forth between the leading clubs of New York and Brooklyn.