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- DictionaryPriv·i·leged/ˈpriv(ə)lijd/
adjective
- 1. having special rights, advantages, or immunities: "in the nineteenth century, only a privileged few had the vote"
Privilege comes from Latin privilegium, meaning a law for just one person, and means a benefit enjoyed by an individual or group beyond what's available to others. Someone wealthy come from privilege. Someone with a library card has borrowing privileges. Privilege can also be used as a verb.
to give an advantage to one person or group of people and not to others: Since colonization, the country has a history of privileging people who have white skin. Family endowments were nearly all male-centric, privileging men and their descendants over female lines of descent. to give something more importance than other things:
adjective. belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few. entitled to or exercising a privilege. restricted to a select group or individual: privileged information; a privileged position. Law. (of utterances or communications)
PRIVILEGED definition: 1. having a privilege: 2. Priviledged information is secret and does not have to be given even in…. Learn more.
PRIVILEGE definition: 1. an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or…. Learn more.
(sometimes disapproving) having special rights or advantages that most people do not have. Those in authority were in a privileged position. She comes from a privileged background. In those days, only a privileged few had the vote. a uniquely privileged position in the American workforce. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Definitions on the go.
excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority. adjective. not subject to usual rules or penalties. “a privileged statement”. synonyms: exempt. (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject. Pronunciation. US.
