Privileged vs. Privilege
Difference Between Privileged and Privilege
Privilegedadjective
Enjoying a privilege or having privileges
a privileged childhood.privileged society.Privilegenoun
A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
Privilegedadjective
Entailing or carrying certain privileges
a reporter who has a privileged relationship with the actor.Privilegenoun
Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
Privilegedadjective
Protected by a legally recognized right against disclosure
privileged information.Privilegenoun
The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
a society based on privilege.Privilegedadjective
Protected by a legally recognized right against a lawsuit for libel or slander.
Privilegenoun
Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.
Privilegednoun
Privileged people considered as a group. Often used with the.
Privilegenoun
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.
Privilegedverb
simple past tense and past participle of privilege
Privilegenoun
An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.
Privilegedadjective
Having special privileges.
Privilegeverb
To grant a privilege to.
Privilegedadjective
(legal) Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.
Privilegeverb
To free or exempt.
Privilegedadjective
blessed with privileges;
the privileged fewPrivilegeverb
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).Privilegedadjective
not subject to usual rules or penalties;
a privileged statementPrivilegenoun
An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
Privilegedadjective
confined to an exclusive group;
privy to inner knowledgeinside informationprivileged informationPrivilegenoun
(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?Privilegenoun
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Privilegenoun
(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
Privilegenoun
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
Privilegenoun
A stock market option.
Privilegenoun
(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.Privilegenoun
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.
Privilegeverb
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
to privilege representatives from arrestPrivilegeverb
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Privilegenoun
a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Privilegenoun
a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);
suffrage was the prerogative of white adult malesPrivilegenoun
(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Privilegeverb
bestow a privilege upon
