Privilege vs. Priority — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Privilege and Priority
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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
Priority
Precedence, especially established by order of importance or urgency.
Privilege
Grant a privilege or privileges to
English inheritance law privileged the eldest son
Priority
An established right to precedence.
Privilege
A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
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Priority
An authoritative rating that establishes such precedence.
Privilege
Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
Priority
A preceding or coming earlier in time.
Privilege
The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
A society based on privilege.
Priority
Something afforded or deserving prior attention.
Privilege
Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.
Priority
An item's relative importance.
He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
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.
Priority
A goal of a person or an organisation.
She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
Privilege
An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.
Priority
The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
Privilege
To grant a privilege to.
Priority
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
Privilege
To free or exempt.
Priority
(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
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).
Priority
(transport) right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users
Privilege
An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
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?
Priority
Precedence; superior rank.
Privilege
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Priority
Status established in order of importance or urgency;
...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals
National independence takes priority over class struggle
Privilege
(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
Priority
Preceding in time
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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