Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Enjoying a privilege or having privileges.
- adjective Entailing or carrying certain privileges.
- adjective Protected by a legally recognized right against disclosure.
- adjective Protected by a legally recognized right against a lawsuit for libel or slander.
- noun Privileged people considered as a group. Often used with the.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.
- adjective (Law) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc.
- adjective (Law) those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent.
- adjective (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
privilege . - adjective having special priveleges
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective blessed with privileges
- adjective not subject to usual rules or penalties
- adjective confined to an exclusive group
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Examples
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I use the word "privileged" to refer to a world I feel privileged to see through the eyes of an author who translates the past and brings it to light by appreciating it as a living, breathing thing.
Carol Smaldino: George Washington vs. Barack Obama: A Question of Character Carol Smaldino 2011
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I do think the concept of exclusivity for the privileged is an interesting one, though.
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The defense wants the prosecution sanctioned for intercepting what they called privileged phone calls with his attorney.
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I use the word "privileged" not in a cheesy, insincere way or as a cliché, but to describe the lasting effect these long-term AIDS survivors have had on my life.
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After months of avoiding the subject, Chancellor Merkel has chosen this moment to revive her idea of offering Turkey what she calls a privileged partnership with the EU, rather than full membership.
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After months of avoiding the subject, Chancellor Merkel has chosen this moment to revive her idea of offering Turkey what she calls a privileged partnership with the EU, rather than full membership.
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After months of avoiding the subject, Chancellor Merkel has chosen this moment to revive her idea of offering Turkey what she calls a privileged partnership with the EU, rather than full membership.
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Both groups believe very firmly that the existence of the club of the privileged is not an issue.
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Both groups believe very firmly that the existence of the club of the privileged is not an issue.
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Those in privileged positions very often fail to notice that fact: why do you think White Southerners in the 1960s often said they thought Blacks were “happy” with segregation?
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