sense of entitlement

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandentitlement

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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entitlement
noun
uk
/ɪnˈtaɪ.təl.mənt/us
/ɪnˈtaɪ.t̬əl.mənt/
something that you have a right to do or have, or the right to do or ...
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(Definition ofsenseandentitlementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of entitlement

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However, the duration, rigor, intensity, and abusiveness of today's medical education also engender asenseofentitlementto high income, prestige, and social power.
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Echoing thesenseofentitlementamong pensioners, the media claimed that pensioners had a constitutional right to social security.
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Physicians with a nonreflective persona also experience asenseofentitlement.
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The undeniable successes of the movement have bred a strongsenseofentitlementand military dominance among its leaders.
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Relative to females, males may be socialized to have a greatersenseofentitlement, such that being ignored or not paid attention to merits more anger from them.
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Sagner explains that thissenseofentitlementhad its roots in cultural concepts of morality and power relationships.
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The economic role of government must be trimmed, but citizens have asenseofentitlementto government benefits, desiring to be buttressed by extensive social safety nets.
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The postwar demobilised writer brought asenseofentitlementto his confessions that had eluded his prewar peer group and was missing in letters from non-veteran youngsters.
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However, contributions are still an essential part of these programs for thesenseofentitlementthey create in the payee, making him or her more willing to pay these taxes.
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His career after 1796 would reveal that he could be curmudgeonly and selfish in placing himself before his country, and thissenseofentitlementmay have characterized his personality earlier.
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The support system gives rise to nosenseofentitlement.
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It is used in subsection (1) to mean the deed itself, so that it mentions "ranking in any title", whereas elsewhere it is used rather in thesenseofentitlement.
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Her life experiences give her asenseofentitlement, and she is accustomed to the best and nothing less.
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This is because theirsenseofentitlementis lower than that of their middle class counterparts.
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He exposes theirsenseofentitlement, their hypocrisy, and their corruption.
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The term may also reflect a pejorative connotation, as in asenseofentitlement.
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Non-stealing is the practice of not breaching an entity's entitlement of orsenseofentitlementtoward something.
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They also try to promote asenseofentitlementin their children, middle class children are encouraged to see adults as their equals.
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Asenseofentitlementstands in for personal values.
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