Sentence examples for entitlement meaning from inspiring English sources

The Metropolitan police confirmed that New Year's Eve was one of two London events – the other being the Notting Hill carnival – in which there was no holiday entitlement, meaning all available staff were called upon.

The firm's institutional review board concluded that the study was ethical for several reasons, said Mary Maguire, a spokeswoman for Abt: because it was not an entitlement, meaning it was not available to everyone; because it could not serve all of the people who applied for it; and because the control group had access to other services.

Right-wingers describe Social Security as an "entitlement," meaning its beneficiaries receive public funds transferred from others.

Unlike Medicaid or food stamps, heating assistance isn't an "entitlement," meaning not everyone who is eligible to receive benefits does.

Those programs are entitlements, meaning that whoever meets eligibility standards gets the assistance.

Last week, the chamber wrote a letter to the Congressional "supercommittee" demanding that it "address entitlements" — meaning cut the benefits of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — and restructure the tax code.

But unlike IDEA, which covers students with special needs until they turn 21, workforce training programs for individuals with disabilities aren't entitlements, meaning that there are far more students who are eligible than receive the service, known as Vocational Rehabilitation.

In April Trump said he opposed cutting entitlement programs, meaning he would have to find other ways to make up the $9.5 trillion in revenue losses from his plan.

In fact, the usual suspects like Paul Ryan were talking about the need for "entitlement reform" — meaning cuts in Medicare and Medicaid — to reduce deficits even as they were passing a huge tax cut that will make those deficits much worse.

Now the Republicans are once again holding the country hostage to its demands to "cut entitlements" -- meaning Social Security, and Medicare -- and to maintain tax loopholes for the wealthy.

And since he does not want to cut military spending or raise taxes, getting the national debt under control means not just reforming entitlement spending (with entitlements here largely meaning Medicaid, and to a lesser extent Medicare, since he doesn't touch Social Security), but also making deep cuts in discretionary spending.