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entitlement

n.

1. rights or benefits legally bestowed on a person or group, for example, by legislation or contract.

2. unreasonable claims to special consideration, especially as a disturbance of self-concept in narcissistic personality disorder.

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decentralization

decentralization

n. the trend to relocate patients with chronic mental illness from long-term institutionalization, usually at government hospitals, to outpatient care in community-based residential facilities. —decentralize vb.