'birthright' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that a person is entitled to by virtue of their birth. Example sentence: His birthright was to inherit a vast fortune from his family.
Being able to hop on and off the back of an open bus is a Londoner's birthright, he might argue, so get hopping.
It's my birthright of James Bond.
Indeed, I've long believed that Americans would be less resistant to large guest-worker programmes if not for the constitution's birthright citizenship provision, which is why I've toyed with doing away with it.
Louie Gohmert, a Texas congressman, had earlier warned of enemies sending mothers-to-be to America to have their babies who could then be "raised and coddled as future terrorists" before being sent back.Only about a sixth of the world's nations practise birthright citizenship.
While the Poles were struggling to regain their geopolitical birthright as a sovereign state in the heart of Europe, politicians in Brussels, Paris, Bonn and London were worried about 'stability'stability
Some foreigners fear that populist politicians, pandering to a belief that the nation is selling its birthright too cheaply, may kill the goose before it has laid any golden eggs.
A FORMER prime minister, who resigned in 2007 after a shambolic first year in office, and his Liberal Democratic Party LDPP), which two years later was hounded out of the governing role that it had taken as its birthright, are both headed for a remarkable return to power.
Mr Xi, it appears, is guided by a dream of regional hegemony, of countries such as South Korea and Japan drifting of their own will away from America's strategic orbit and into that of China, the resurgent power reclaiming what it regards as its historical birthright.
Bond seems moved by his complicated birthright, while his tough old boss M, played by a queenly Dame Judi Dench, more straightforwardly cites a great English poet as her inspiration.
But it also increases the pressure on companies to contract out their "non-core" activities to (often smaller) specialised companies or to use more temporary workers than in the past (as four in five American firms now do).This has threatened in all sorts of ways the type of career which Organisation Man once assumed was a birthright.
Most still see free education, free health care, cheap child care and high-quality services for pensioners as their birthright.
