(Homonym: dos).
1. Money paid for membership in a club or society.
2. Any experience or hardship borne by new workers in a company or organization.

An individual's automatic entitlement to certain freedoms and other benefits, usually, in liberal democracies such as the UK, in the context of the individual's relationship with the government of the country. The struggle to assert political and civil rights against arbitrary government has been a major theme of Western political history.