Privilege

Definition: Privilege

Privilege

Noun

1. A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all.

2. A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males".

3. (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship.

Verb

1. Grant a privilege to.

2. Bestow a privilege upon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "privilege" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Diversity

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Privilege

Dueness

Noun: due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity, license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right.

Exemption

Noun: exemption; absence; exception, immunity, privilege, release.

Permission

Grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust; (commission).

Crosswords: Privilege

Dutch (privilege).

Breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege. (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner)

It is a privilege to talk to anyone whose love of learning shines like yours. (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar)

Does a man have the same privilege as a sponge? (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee)

Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you. (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger)

Privilege (1967)

A Woman's Privilege (1962)

Woman's Privilege in Leap Year (1912)

Question of Privilege (1999)

Daughters of Privilege (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Executive Privilege (reference)

• Invisible Privilege : A Memoir About Race, Class, and Gender (reference)

• The Haves and the Have Nots: The Abuse of Power and Privilege in the Workplace ... and How to Control It (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Palm Beach:Money Power and Privilege (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Privilege (reference)

• Privilege of Evil [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

For the privilege of fighting for freedom, we thank Thee, O Lord. Credit: Library of Congress.

Franking privilege. Credit: Library of Congress.

Your last chance to register. It's so easy and a great privilege. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

On the other side, honour and support, all that which gratitude requires to return for the benefits received by and from them, is the indispensable duty of the child, and the proper privilege of the parents. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. (reference)

For those whose application is rejected, the privilege will terminate at the date of the refusal. (reference)

Illinois, stressed the need for protective devices to make the process of police interrogation conform to the dictates of the privilege. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I said, `I would like to say that it is a very great pleasure, honor and privilege for me to open this bridge, but I can't because my lying circuits are all out of commission.

Certain magnificent and joyous corteges, especially the Fat Ox, had the same privilege.

Then, taking him from thence that is not there, You break no privilege nor charter there.

It did not turn his mill, and it was no privilege to him to behold it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The British consider vacations to be a right, not a privilege. (references)

This despite the fact that the owners now incur increased personal taxation for the privilege. (references)

Buyers tend to privilege the name, reputation, and perceived dependability of insurers over price and services when selecting a company. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Dramas and documentaries on previously taboo subjects, including corruption, social privilege, narcotics, violence against women, and female inequality, are broadcast on television; however, some sensitive series have been canceled before being broadcast. (references)

Honduras

Other methods are more subtle, such as the coveted privilege to accompany the President on his official travels. (references)

Slovenia

The Muslim community registered a complaint with the Ombudsman during the year because RTV Slovenia refused to allow them free airtime to address their community during Ramadan--a privilege granted to the Catholic, Serb Orthodox, and Protestant communities during their respective religious holidays. (references)

Discrimination

Samoa

Politics and culture reflect a heritage of chiefly privilege and power, and members of certain families have some advantages. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

In October 1997, Slovenia joined the group of countries--now numbering 26--whose citizens enjoy the privilege of visa-free travel to the United States. (references)

Hungary

Some American travel companies currently operating in Hungary are American Express, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines, Tradesco Privilege Tours, American International Group, Alamo Rent-a-Car, and Worldspan. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

This privilege often is denied. (references)

Ukraine

While in custody, a suspect or a prisoner is allowed by law to talk with a lawyer in private; however, human rights groups reported that the client-attorney privilege occasionally was denied by prison or investigative officials. (references)

Honduras

Many elected politicians enjoy constitutional immunity due to the privilege of their office. (references)

Minorities

Germany

Critics contend that the Sinti/Romani minority is the only official national minority that does not have unique legal protection, political privilege, or reserved representation in certain public institutions. (references)

Travel

Thailand

An importer can use the letter of guarantee as a substitute to the import entry form and the payment guarantee . The importer must complete the carnet import/re-export document and submit it to Customs officers at Thailand's port of entry . The Customs officers will inspect the goods, keep a copy of the import entry form and return the carnet book to the importer . If the goods are not taken out within the period of time stated in the contract, the guarantor will have to pay duty, a 10 percent penalty, and any applicable fees . For further information, please contact the Privilege Goods and Investment Promotion Sub-Division tel: (662) 249-4150, fax: (662) 249-4212. (references)

Worker Rights

Sao Tome and Principe

In principle workers and their families were provided free (but inadequate) housing, rudimentary education for their children, and health care, as well as the privilege of reduced prices and credit at the "company store." These arrangements were intended to subsidize food and clothing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "privilege": abuse a privilege ♦ breach of privilege ♦ by way of privilege ♦ franking privilege ♦ grant a special privilege ♦ informer's privilege ♦ journalist's privilege ♦ marital communications privilege ♦ of privilege ♦ privilege attributes ♦ privilege of parliament ♦ privilege of the floor ♦ privilege smb. to do smth. ♦ question of privilege ♦ water privilege ♦ withdraw a privilege ♦ writ of privilege. Additional references.

Beginning with "privilege": privilege-violation.

Afrikaans

voorreg (pleasure). (various references)

Albanian

privilegjoj, privilegj (charter, edge, franchise, indulgence, patent), prerogativë (perquisite, prerogative), jap një privilegj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, identify, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, realize, recognize, segregate, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, single out, stamp), ‏منح حصانة, ‏منح إمتياز, ‏مزية, ‏هبة (benevolence, bestowal, blast, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, offering, outburst, present, puff, waft, whiff), ‏سعادة (beatitude, excellency, felicity, gladness, glee, happiness, his excellency, joy, sunshine, weal, welfare, well being), ‏إمتياز (charter, concession, distinction, excellence, franchise, lien, note, patent, prerogative, splendor, splendour), ‏شرف (credit, dignity, dominate, ennoble, follow up, grace, honour, laurels, nobleness, preside, sublime, superintend). (various references)

Bulgarian 

преимущество (advantage, interest, odds, perquisite, superiority, whip hand), предимство (advantage, antecedence, asset, leg up, pas, plus, precedence, preference, priority, pull, right of way, score, start, vantage), привилегировам, привилегия (franchise, incident, indulgence, perquisite, preference, prerogative, pull, right), давам право (empower, enable), давам привилегия. (various references)

Chinese 

特权 (franchise, Franchised, Franchising, Prerogative), 特權 (prerogative, privileged). (various references)

Czech

privilegium (prerogative), velká pocta, výsada (franchise, patent, prerogative), obdařit výsadou. (various references)

Dutch

privilege, preferentie, prae. (various references)

Esperanto

privilegio. (various references)

Farsi 

مزیت (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Preference, Prepayment, Profit, Vantage), حق ویژه (Prerogative), امتیازمخصوصی اعطاکردن , امتیاز (Charter, Concession, Grant, Precedence, Prerogative, Prominence, Upperhand), رجحان (Excellence, Predilection, Predominance, Preference), بخشیدن (Bestow, Betake, Condone, Dispense, Donate, Forgive, Give, Giveaway, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Remit, Spare, Vouchsafe). (various references)

Finnish

oikeus (court, justice, right), etuoikeus (prerogative, priority, right of precedence), erioikeus, erikoisetu. (various references)

French

privilège (preference, preferential right). (various references)

German

vorrecht (freedom, precedence, prerogative), Privileg (franchise), Vergünstigung (abatement, benefit, discount, favour, grace, perk, perquisite, rebate, reduction), Sonderrecht. (various references)

Greek 

προνόμιο (franchise, prerogative, privilege for), δικαίωμα (concession, prescription, right), δίδω προνόμιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ע� יק זכות (charter), ל�"ע� יק חסי� ות, פריביל�'י�", זכי�" (gaining, jackpot, right, win, winning), זכות יתר, זכות (acquittal, advantage, credit, equity, favour, merit, prerogative, right, vantage), חסיון (refuge, shelter), חסי� ות (immunity, strength). (various references)

Hungarian

privilégium (franchise, liberty), kiváltság (exemption, franchise, lien, prerogative), előjog (franchise, prerogative). (various references)

Indonesian

hak istimewa (prerogative). (various references)

Italian

privilegio (honor, honour, privelege). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

特権 (special right), 特典 (special favor), 権利 (right), 光� � (glory, honour). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うえい (descendant, glory, honour, public management, rear guard), け�"り (right), とくて�" (marks obtained, points made, runs, score, special favor), とっけ�" (special right). (various references)

Korean 

특권. (various references)

Manx

cur cair da, cur ard chied da, cair (due, just, property, right, rights). (various references)

Papiamen

privilegio. (various references)

Pig Latin

ivilegepray

Portuguese

privilégio (appurtenance, charter, concession, franchise, liberty, perk, perquisite, prerogative, privelege, right). (various references)

Romanian

privilegiu (advantage, charter, Favor, favour, franchise, freedom, incident, indulgence, licence, patent, prerogative, priority, right), scuti (absolve, disengage, dispense, excuse, exempt, forgive, free, release, relieve, remit, save, spare), elibera (clear, clear out, deliver, discharge, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, free, give, issue, liberate, make out, manumit, ransom, release, remand, remit, rescue, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unhand, unshackle, vacate), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), apanaj (Apanage, appanage, attribute), acorda un privilegiu. (various references)

Russian 

привилегия (charter, exemption, franchise, perquisite). (various references)

Scottish

sochair (a benefit, benefit, emolument). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privilegovati, privilegija, povlastiti, povlastica (prerogative), sloboda (freedom, leeway, liberty, licence, license, loose, right). (various references)

Spanish

privilegio (charter, concession, copyright, patent, privelege, right). (various references)

Swedish

privilegium (charter, franchise, freedom, indulgence, prerogative), rättighet (right). (various references)

Turkish

rüçhan hakkı (preference, priority, refusal), imtiyaz vermek, imtiyaz (concession, faculty, franchise, grant, prerogative, royalty), dokunulmazlık (exterritoriality, extraterritorial, extraterritoriality, franchise, immunity, privacy), ayricalik, ayrıcalık tanımak (acquit), ayrıcalık (benefit, cachet, charter, concession, concessionairy, eligibility, faculty, Favor, favour, franchise, immunity, incident, oracle, peculiar, prerogative, refusal, royalty, speciality), özel hak. (various references)

Turkmen 

яeсillik (ease), hak-hukuk (right). (various references)

Ukrainian

привілей (charter, exemption, franchise, indulgence, patent, perquisite, prerogative), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage), давати прівилей. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đặc quyền (prerogative), đặc ân. (various references)

Welsh

rhagorfraint, breintio (favor), breinio (enfranchise), braint. (various references)

Zulu

ilungelo (right), ililungelo (right). (various references)

benefici, beneficia, beneficii, beneficiis, beneficio, beneficiorum, beneficium, privilegium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "privilege": privileged, privileges. (additional references)

Words containing "privilege": overprivileged, underprivileged, unprivileged. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Privilege" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: previlege, previllege, prilivege, privalege, privelege, privellege, privilage, priviledge, privileg, privilige, privillege, privlege. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: veliger.

-3 letters: eviler, girlie, grieve, levier, liever, livier, regive, relive, revile, veiler, virile.

-4 letters: elver, ervil, giver, gripe, leger, leper, lever, liege, lieve, liger, liver, livre, peril, pilei, plier, reive, repeg, repel, revel, vegie, verge, vigil, viler, viper.

-5 letters: eger, ever, evil, girl, give, glee, gree, grip, leer, lier, lipe, lire, liri, live, peel.

+1 letter: privileged, privileges.

+2 letters: replevining.

+3 letters: unprivileged.

+5 letters: hypervigilance, overexplaining, overexploiting, overprivileged.

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