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Privilege vs. Privileged — What's the Difference?

Privilege vs. Privileged — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Privilege and Privileged

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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

Privileged

Enjoying a privilege or having privileges
A privileged childhood.
Privileged society.

Privilege

Grant a privilege or privileges to
English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

Privileged

Entailing or carrying certain privileges
A reporter who has a privileged relationship with the actor.

Privilege

A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
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Privileged

Protected by a legally recognized right against disclosure
Privileged information.

Privilege

Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.

Privileged

Protected by a legally recognized right against a lawsuit for libel or slander.

Privilege

The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
A society based on privilege.

Privileged

Privileged people considered as a group. Often used with the.

Privilege

Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.

Privileged

Simple past tense and past participle of privilege

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.

Privileged

Having special privileges.

Privilege

An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.

Privileged

(legal) Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.

Privilege

To grant a privilege to.

Privileged

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.

Privilege

To free or exempt.

Privileged

Blessed with privileges;
The privileged few

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).

Privileged

Not subject to usual rules or penalties;
A privileged statement

Privilege

An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.

Privileged

Confined to an exclusive group;
Privy to inner knowledge
Inside information
Privileged information

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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