Permission vs. Privilege — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Permission and Privilege
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Permission
The action of officially allowing someone to do a particular thing; consent or authorization
They had entered the country without permission
He received permission to go to Brussels
Privilege
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
Education is a right, not a privilege
He has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege
Permission
The act of permitting, especially in giving formal consent; authorization
Do they have permission to leave?.
Privilege
Grant a privilege or privileges to
English inheritance law privileged the eldest son
Permission
An authorization to do something, as to quote from a book under copyright.
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Privilege
A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
Permission
Authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
Privilege
Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
Permission
The act of permitting.
Privilege
The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
A society based on privilege.
Permission
(computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
Privilege
Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.
Permission
(transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
Privilege
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.
Permission
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
High permission of all-ruling Heaven.
You have given me your permission for this address.
Privilege
An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.
Permission
Approval to do something;
He asked permission to leave
Privilege
To grant a privilege to.
Permission
The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
Privilege
To free or exempt.
Privilege
To assign greater importance or priority to
“A Harvard Law grad who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, he is steeped in a tradition that privileges the Bill of Rights over the crude or arbitrary exercise of power” (Evan Thomas).
Privilege
An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
Privilege
(countable) 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?
Privilege
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Privilege
(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
Privilege
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
Privilege
A stock market option.
Privilege
(legal) 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.
Privilege
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
Privilege
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
To privilege representatives from arrest
Privilege
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Privilege
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.
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.
The privilege birthright was a double portion.
A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties.
Privilege
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
Privilege
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To privilege dishonor in thy name.
Privilege
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands.
Privilege
A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Privilege
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);
Suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
Privilege
(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Privilege
Bestow a privilege upon
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