Privilege

Noun

 * 1) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise; preferential treatment.
 * 2) * All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?
 * 3) The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
 * 4) * In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege.
 * 5)  a common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
 * 6) * ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege.

Synonyms

 * prerogative, immunity, franchise, right, claim, liberty, advantage

Verb

 * 1)  To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
 * 2)  To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

Thesaurus
accomplishment, advantage, allowance, appanage, ascendancy, authority, authorization, authorize, benefit, birthright, blank check, boon, carte blanche, certificate, certify, charter, concession, consent, copyright, deanship, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, empower, enable, enfranchise, entitle, excellence, exception, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, give official sanction, give power, grant, greatness, immunity, incomparability, indulgence, inimitability, lead, leave, legalize, legislative immunity, legitimize, liberty, license, majority, one-upmanship, patent, permission, perquisite, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, ratify, release, right, right-of-way, sanction, seniority, skill, special favor, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency, validate, virtuosity, warrant

Etymology
From privilège, from  privilegium an ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, legis, law.

Pronunciation

 * IPA: /ˈpɹɪvəlɛdʒ/ (Canadian) or /ˈpɹɪv(ə)lɪdʒ/ (RP) or /ˈpɹɪv(ə)lədʒ/

Noun

 * Arabic: امتياز
 * Catalan: privilegi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 特權, 特权
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 * Finnish: etuoikeus, erioikeus
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 * Italian:, prerogativa
 * Japanese: 特権
 * Korean: 특권 (特權)
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 * Romanian: privilegiu
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 * Telugu: ప్రత్యేక హక్కు
 * Vietnamese: đặc quyền (特權)


 * Finnish: salassapito-oikeus


 * Romanian: privilegiu, drept

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