entitles

verb

present tense third-person singular of entitle
1
as in authorizes
to give a right to the card entitles my grandmother to the discount for senior citizens

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2
as in calls
to give a name to apart from the obvious, she couldn't decide what to entitle her painting of a vase with flowers

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Recent Examples of entitles His studio deal with Universal Television — a ‘Spielberg deal,’ as one leading Hollywood attorney put it — entitles him to half of his shows’ profits. — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 Your membership entitles you to a huge range of discounts, insights, and opportunities. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026 The new agreement entitles lawyers to 45% of the settlement, which will be split evenly between the two firms. — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026 The lesson of Taylor is not that holding a powerful office entitles someone to go unchallenged. — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026 At the time, according to the New York Times, Sotheby’s was selling the work without a guarantee, an agreement that entitles the seller to a sum whether or not the work finds a buyer. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 13 Apr. 2026 In its recent decision, the court has sided with a Colorado Christian therapist who argued that her right to free speech entitles her to counsel adolescents toward heterosexuality. — Donna Lamb, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 And a fight between Morris and the church over whether an employment agreement entitles him and his wife to between $600,000 and $800,000 annually is playing out in state court in Tarrant County as well as in Christian arbitration before the Ambassadors of Reconciliation. — Michelle Casady, Dallas Morning News, 16 Mar. 2026 Fink’s deal entitles him to an undisclosed percentage of carry incentive distributions from a composite bucket of 10 of BlackRock’s flagship private market funds that raised capital in 2024. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entitles
  1. authorizes
  2. calls
  3. qualifies
  4. nominates
  5. enables
  6. designates
  7. empowers
  8. names
Verb
  • The House settlement authorizes the CSC to review NIL deals for evidence of possible recruiting inducements and similar forms of compensation used to sway where athletes decide to play.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The law authorizes the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to fine, suspend or revoke a business license for violating the child-protection law.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of authorizes
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  • Shavers has spent years warning about button pushing, where an examiner runs the tool, accepts the output and calls it an examination.
    — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Curiously, the man says goodbye to Thom by name — but when Bret calls this out the next morning, Thom denies it.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of calls
Verb
  • If a child qualifies for the government’s $1,000 or the Dell Foundation’s $250, opening an account is free money.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2026
  • As has been case with the mothership series starring Manuel Garcia Rulfo, the idea is to film in Los Angeles if the spinoff qualifies for a California tax credit.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of qualifies
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  • Even though the president nominates agency leaders, those commissioners are confirmed by the Senate and must not be unfairly punished for exercising independent judgment, Potter said.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Trump nominates Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA, a surprising comeback after the former Navy SEAL was fired last May for defending the agency’s existence amid calls to dismantle it.
    — Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Definition of nominates
Verb
  • Researchers have developed a new control framework that enables humanoid robots to perform agile movements, including army crawls, breakdancing and backflips.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Recent industry research by Typeface and a Marketing Week survey shows that marketers are reducing agency spend because AI enables more work to move in-house.
    — Nital Shah, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of enables
Verb
  • Interestingly, both rod-and-reel anglers and bow fishermen agreed that the 20-pound mark designates a trophy.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • When a creator designates an episode as ‘premium’ via their dashboard, TrueFans encrypts the audio file to prevent unauthorized access through RSS feeds.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of designates
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  • This year’s main beneficiary is OCA (Opportunity, Community, Ability), an organization that empowers individuals with autism and other developmental differences.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • According to the California Department of Rehabilitation, encouraging independent living among people with disabilities is a philosophy that emphasizes their agency and empowers them to take charge of their care.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of empowers
Verb
  • The order names Unitree and AgiBot directly, and points to the risks of depending on machines packed with cameras, microphones and network connectivity that are built by a foreign power.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The suit, which names Mayor Mamdani and his finance commissioner Richard Lee, claims that the city did not fully make use of the information available to it about homeowners in determining who would be subject to the tax.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of names

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