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entitle

 verb
     
en‧ti‧tle S2 W2 [transitive often passive]
1 to give someone the official right to do or have something
be entitled to (do) something
Full-time employees are entitled to receive health insurance.
entitle somebody to something
Membership entitles you to the monthly journal.
2

be entitled something

if a book, play etc is entitled something, that is its name:
a documentary entitled 'The Price of Perfection'
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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