Privileged

Definition: Privileged

Privileged

Adjective

1. Blessed with privileges; "the privileged few".

2. Not subject to usual rules or penalties; "a privileged statement".

3. Confined to an exclusive or group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; privileged information".

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

Date "privileged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Privileged

Dueness

Privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.

Crosswords: Privileged

Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

You get an education, something not all people are privileged to. (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey)

Holiday mood like fickle girl - privileged to change mind. (Charlie Chan in Shanghai; writing credit: Robert Ellis; Gerard Fairlie)

...It Is Nice to Be Privileged (1976)

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

Books

• My Privileged Life: With the Scarteen Black and Tans (Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library.) (reference)

• Privileged Conversation (reference)

• Privileged Goods: Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society (reference)

• Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life (reference)

• Privileged Information (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Privileged Few (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

The power of the State is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

This will allow Kazakhstan to obtain privileged loans for small- and medium-size businesses without state guarantees. (references)

The MERCOSUR car industry will continue to benefit temporarily from a privileged regime that penalizes companies that have no local production. (references)

The GOU introduced a discriminatory system of restricted conversion to a limited (most privileged) number of companies granting them licenses from the CBU for conversion. (references)

Children

Fiji

There are a few special schools for persons with mental disabilities; however, their costs limit access to privileged families. (references)

Bhutan

Children enjoy a privileged position in society and benefit from international development programs focused on maternal and child welfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Although the 1991 Constitution separated the Catholic Church from the State, the Church retains a de facto privileged status. (references)

Discrimination

Tonga

Social, cultural, and economic facilities are available to all citizens regardless of race or religion; however, members of the hereditary nobility have substantial advantages, including control over most land and a generally privileged status. (references)

Kiribati

Society is fundamentally egalitarian and has no privileged class. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Additionally, this law banned privileged privatization to employees. (references)

Human Rights

Mauritania

Prisoners with high-level government connections and families to bring them food, medicines, and reading material fared better than the less privileged or citizens from other countries. (references)

Minorities

Italy

Roma communities complained that their language does not enjoy the same privileged status as that granted to minority languages in the autonomous regions. (references)

Trade

Guinea

Privileged regimes have an exemption on import duties for machinery and equipment for use on investment projects and a 6% duty on raw materials. (references)

Travel

Thailand

The revelation of what Westerners regard as rampant graft, corruption, and favoritism as an integral part of Thai business and political practice, and the recognition of the great cost to society these actions have caused in the wake of the financial crisis, is causing many Thais to openly criticize, for the first time, the behavior of the privileged and powerful . Previously referred to euphemistically as "the Thai way," such favoritism was not necessarily tolerated, but not directly challenged . The new economic and social era in the making holds promise of also being fairer and more transparent . (references)

Women

Eritrea

In practice males retain privileged access to education, employment, and control of economic resources, with more disparities in rural areas than in cities. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "privileged": a privileged few ♦ measure establishing privileged access ♦ privileged classes ♦ privileged command ♦ privileged communication ♦ privileged debts ♦ privileged instruction ♦ privileged mode ♦ privileged person ♦ privileged tax regime ♦ privileged testator ♦ privileged user ♦ privileged will ♦ privileged witnesses. Additional references.

Ending with "privileged": non-privileged, over-privileged, under-privileged.

Arabic 

‏متمتع بإمتياز, ‏وجيه (faced, facet, notable, reputed, substantial, weighty, worthy), ‏ذو إمتياز, ‏ثري (fat, moneyed, opulent, plushy, posh, prosperous, rich, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do). (various references)

Bulgarian 

привилегирован (chartered, favored, favoured, preferential), поверителен (classified, confidential, esoteric, hush hush, occult, private, privy, restricted, secret). (various references)

Chinese 

特许 (Chartered, Chartering, Facultative), 特權 (prerogative, privilege). (various references)

Czech

privilegovaný, výsadní. (various references)

Danish

priviligeret bruger (privileged user), privilegeret ordre (privileged command, privileged instruction), privilegeret modus (master mode, monitor mode, privileged mode, supervisor mode), privilegeret kommando (privileged command, privileged instruction), privilegeret instruktion (privileged command, privileged instruction), privilegeret information (privileged information), overordnet modus (master mode, monitor mode, privileged mode, supervisor mode), lån på fordelagtige vilkår (loan on privileged terms), insiderviden (privileged information), enhver foranstaltning,hvorved der gives privilegeret adgang (measure establishing privileged access), en kunstig fortrinsstilling,som medfoerer en vaesentlig fordel i adgangen til forsyningskilderne og afsaetningsmarkederne (an artificially privileged position involving a sunstantial advantage in access to supplies or markets), EF-handlingsprogram på mellemlangt sigt for økonomisk og social integration af de økonomisk og socialt dårligt stillede befolkningsgrupper (Medium-term Community action programme concerning the economic and social integration of the economically and socially less privileged groups in society), Det Rådgivende Udvalg for Økonomisk og Social Integration af de Økonomisk og Socialt Dårligt Stillede Befolkningsgrupper (Advisory Committee on Economic and Social Integration of the Economically and Socially Less Privileged Groups in Society), dedikerede kørsler (dedicated mode, privileged mode), begunstigede transaktioner (privileged operations). (various references)

Dutch

voorrangs-, bevoorrecht (irreducible). (various references)

Esperanto

privilegia. (various references)

Finnish

etuoikeutettu (preferential). (various references)

French

privilégié (privileged person). (various references)

German

privilegierte, bevorrechtigt (precemtive, preferred). (various references)

Greek 

προνομιούχοσ (patentee). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיוחס (well born), חסוי (under prorection), בעל זכות. (various references)

Hungarian

privilegizált, kiváltságos (prerogative). (various references)

Italian

privilegiato (favored, favoured, priveleged). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"客 (guest of honour, privileged guest, visitor), 特権階級 (privileged class). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひ�"きゃく (guest of honour, privileged guest, visitor), ひ�"かく (dignity, guest of honour, objective case, privileged guest, visitor), とっけ�"かいきゅう (privileged class). (various references)

Korean 

특권이 있�". (various references)

Manx

beggan as foayr oc (privileged few), beggan as ard chied oc (privileged few). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivilegedpray

Portuguese

privilegiado (chartered, gifted, preference, preferential, prerogative). (various references)

Romanian

privilegiat. (various references)

Russian 

привилегированный (favored, favoured, preferred). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privilegovan, povlašćen (preferential, prerogative). (various references)

Spanish

privilegiado (preferential, preferred, prerogative, priveleged). (various references)

Swedish

priviligierad användare (privileged user), privilegierat kommando (privileged command, privileged instruction), privilegierad instruktion (privileged command, privileged instruction), systemmod (master mode, monitor mode, privileged mode, supervisor mode), nödtestamente (privileged will), information för vilken gäller bestämda åtkomstregler (privileged information), gynnade förfaranden (privileged operations), frälsestånd (privileged classes), frälse (exemption from land dues to the crown, privileged classes), en konstlad undantagställning,vilken medför en väsentlig fördel i fråga om tillgång till försörjningskällor och avsättning (an artificially privileged position involving a sunstantial advantage in access to supplies or markets), driftform:dedikerad drift (dedicated mode, privileged mode). (various references)

Turkish

seçkin (choice, distinguished, eminent, excellent, exclusive, outstanding, picked, pre-eminencent, prominent, select, selected, topflight, top-hole, top-line, well chosen), muaf (exempt, exempted, free), imtiyazlı (granted, licensed, preferential, prerogative), ayrıcalıklı (at liberty, concessionairy, exclusive, favored, favoured, immune, inner, preferential, prerogative, special), öncelikli (indispensable, of first priority, of top priority, predecessor, preferential, preferred, prior, underlying). (various references)

Ukrainian

привілейований (chartered, favored, favoured, preferential, preferred). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có đặc quyền; được đặc quyền; được đặc ân. (various references)

Welsh

breiniol (free). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "privileged": overprivileged, underprivileged, unprivileged. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Privileged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: previlege, previllege, prilivege, privalege, privelege, priveleged, privellege, privilage, privilaged, priviledge, priviledged, privileg, privilige, priviliged, privillege, privlege, privleged. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: privilege.

-2 letters: liveried.

-3 letters: deliver, deprive, diverge, grieved, ledgier, periled, pledger, predive, relived, replied, reviled, veliger.

-4 letters: delver, derive, drivel, edgier, eviler, gelder, gilder, girdle, girlie, glider, grieve, griped, ledger, levied, levier, lieder, liever, lipide, livier, pedler, perdie, pledge, redleg, regild, regive, reived, relied, relive, repled, revile, ridgel, ridgil, veiled, veiler, verged, virile.

-5 letters: delve.

+2 letters: unprivileged.

+4 letters: overprivileged.

+5 letters: underprivileged.

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