Other forms: entitlements
An entitlement is something you have a right to receive. Benefit entitlement, check your entitlement, statutory entitlement.
In administration it is neutral and precise — an entitlement is what the rules say you may claim. In ordinary speech a sense of entitlement is an insult, meaning somebody expects what they have not earned. The two uses pull hard against each other.
1nounentitlementSomething you have a right to receive.
“Your holiday entitlement is twenty-five days a year.”
entitlement is a right.
Latin
intitulāre
Old French
entiteler
Anglo-Norman
entitler
English
entitle
English, today
entitlement
From entitle + -ment. entitle comes from Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler, (French intituler), from Latin intitulāre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA