privilege
/ˈpɹɪv.ɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/ noun B2- 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. · All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?
- 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 common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court. · Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege.
- An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
Plural privileges
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Certainly a call to the visitors’ room had scarcely astonished Andrea less than themselves, for the wily youth, instead of making use of his privilege of waiting to be claimed on his entry into La Force, had maintained a rigid silence.
TEE KITES of olden times, as well as the Swans, had the privilege of song.
If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages.”
The reputation of being out of his mind, though harmlessly and even amusingly so, had procured for the abbé unusual privileges.
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