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  • verb Third person singular simple present of to entitle.

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Examples

  • The title entitles you to the command of half my possessions.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • The title entitles you to the command of half my possessions.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The title entitles you to the command of half my possessions.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Come then and give yourselves to Christ, not repelled by any false, ascetic views of his religion, but believing, as his word entitles you to believe, that it is the promoter of innocent joy, of healthy and grateful recreation, of the highest and purest pleasures.

    Amusement: A Force in Christian Training Marvin Richardson Vincent 1878

  • The designation entitles each organization to $75,000 in cash and services that include strategy consulting, business planning, executive coaching and introductions to potential philanthropic investors.

    Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010

  • Orphan drug designation entitles AVI to 7 years of market exclusivity for AVI-4658 for the treatment of patients with DMD.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2008

  • They accepted that they were contesting the election under a system which sought to compensate parties whose vote is too spread out to win many or any first-past-the-post seats, but who retain a level or popular support regionally that "entitles" them to representation.

    What is Victory? Glyn Davies 2007

  • This is extremely important: That Settlement says that designation entitles Google to sell the book, and authors who opt in have no legal recourse for harm caused by Google’s competition with their in-print book except an arbitration board controlled by Google.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Le Guin on the Google Settlement: Continued Discussion 2010

  • The accuracy which these young gentlemen evinced on their examination, was such as entitles them to the esteem and applause of the committee, who, in behalf of the trustees, pronounce them the greatest proficients in geography in this department.

    North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

  • I notice that the negroes seldom or never take the names of their present owners in adopting their "entitles," as they call their surnames, but always that of some former master, and they go as far back as possible.

    The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

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