Payment vs Entitlement - What's the difference?
payment | entitlement |
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= The right to have something.
Something that one is entitled to.
(politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
As nouns the difference between payment and entitlement
is that payment is (uncountable) the act of paying while entitlement is the right to have something.payment
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment .” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
