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entitlements

noun

plural of entitlement

as in subsidies

a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action entitlements to local school districts

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Recent Examples of entitlements In a Microsoft Fabric and Power BI estate, OneLake security, sensitivity labels and row-level security let entitlements travel with the data rather than depending on each AI front end to behave. — Leon Gordon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Matt Tapp, director of acquisitions and entitlements at Griffin Riley, said Monday that the project represents several years of close collaboration with city officials. — Ilana Arougheti july 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 Public safety, education and child care, and protecting seniors’ entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. — Brent Andersen, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026 The property also offers pre-WDO (Pre-Winery Definition Ordinance) entitlements supporting future expansion opportunities. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026 Soaring interest rates and entitlements drive debt toward disaster. — Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 8 June 2026 The supply of properties that check all these boxes — functional ranch infrastructure, winery entitlements, the land and water profile that makes genuine self-sufficiency possible — is finite in ways that new construction can’t solve. — Lindsey Harn, Fortune, 6 June 2026 The fact that there was a legal dispute over these entitlements, with the workers and the State of New York on one side and the platforms on the other, demonstrates the political stakes of their struggle. — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026

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That has created shortages and long lines at gas stations, made worse by deep subsidies that encourage excess consumption.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
Costs for consumers in the Affordable Care Act marketplace have soared amid expiring ACA premium subsidies, and insurance affordability poses a political threat to Republicans during upcoming midterm elections.

— Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of subsidies

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Below is a list of the grants and their descriptions included in a news release from the governor's office.

— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
The World Bank has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into grants for modernizing the Syrian financial sector, restoring water access, and bolstering its healthcare system.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of grants

Noun

Some addicts learned to game the system by obtaining daily allotments of hydromorphone pills—15 or more a day was typical—and then selling them to dealers in exchange for stronger fentanyl concoctions.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
These phones have different sizes and shapes, different memory and storage allotments, and different camera systems.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026

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