Privilege

Word PRIVILEGE
Character 9
Hyphenation priv i lege
Pronunciations /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Privilege"

What do we mean by privilege?

A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. synonym: right. noun

Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others. noun

The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity. noun

Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor. noun

Protection from being sued for libel or slander for making otherwise actionable statements in a context or forum where open and candid expression is deemed desirable for reasons of public policy. noun

An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle. noun

To grant a privilege to. transitive verb

To free or exempt. transitive verb

In the High Peak, Derbyshire, the land on which a house stands, including the garden, even if the garden is on the other side of the road. noun

A writ issued to apprehend a person in a privileged place. noun

To grant some privilege to; bestow some particular right or exemption on: invest with a peculiar right or immunity; exempt from censure or danger: as, to privilege diplomatic representatives from arrest; the privileged classes.

To exempt in any way; free: with from.

To authorize; license.

An ordinance in favor of an individual. noun

A right, immunity, benefit, or advantage enjoyed by a person or body of persons beyond the common advantages of other individuals; the enjoyment of some desirable right, or an exemption from some evil or burden; a private or personal favor enjoyed; a peculiar advantage. noun

Specifically — In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption or license granted by the Pope. It differs from a dispensation and from a grace in that it never refers to a single act, but presupposes and legalizes many acts done in pursuance of it, and confers on its possessor immunity in regard to every act so privileged. noun

Special immunity or advantage granted to persons in authority or in office, as the freedom of speech, freedom from arrest, etc., enjoyed by members of Parliament or of Congress. Compare breach of privilege, below. noun

An advantage yielded; superiority. noun

(ecclesiastical law) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.

A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.

An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).

The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.

A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.

A stock market option.

A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.

An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Privilege

The word "privilege" in example sentences

V. iii.129 (478,1) Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,/My oath, and my profession] The _privilege_ of this _oath_ means the privilege gained by taking the oath administered in the regular initiation of a knight professed. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Nevertheless, as this subject matter of a concordat is not necessarily homogeneous (the unity of a concordat being merely extrinsic and accidental) it follows that although the term privilege may be applied to a concordat taken as a whole, it cannot necessarily be used of every clause in the same. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We appreciate that this privilege has been afforded Nurse Chaplin for most of her career, through her years of invaluable service, and that the loss of privilege is often perceived as an infringement of rights, but her reaction (and yours) is actually quite revealing as to why this is a privilege rather than a right, why her demand for exemption is of dubious merit. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Anything beyond that is what we refer to as a privilege, and one that can be taken away by the men who pay the bills any time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Bush administration's arguably problematic and broad use of the privilege is adeptly summed up by Mr. Lanman as follows: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Another privilege is the use of the Library of Congress. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Congress, however, has never passed a federal shield law, and the privilege is at its weakest in a grand-jury setting — because that is precisely the setting in which the Court rejected it in Branzburg. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They are quite as poor and quite as ignorant, and quite as degraded as they were in 1808, and if they do raise a little grain of their own, they are so hardly taxed that the privilege is as nought. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

But in a great many of our personal interactions and reactions, "privilege" is not what's going down. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you're a member of a non-target group, becoming a traitor and losing your "privilege" is extremely easy: All you have to do is stand up publicly for truth and justice. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

White privilege is like the air we breathe -- invisible and available without effort. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, although you are correct that privilege is complicated, Zetta is speaking to a very particular situation and experience here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Okay, I love this post, and I think the "invisibility of privilege" is a perfect way to conceptualize the problem. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The court held that the purpose of the fair use privilege is to protect noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The unnnatural and unethical privilege is being ignored and rendered ineffective before our eyes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The privilege is belong to the leader of the nation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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