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1.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; preferential treatment. | 1.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; 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?'' | : ''All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only [[teaching]] one! What entitled you to such a privilege?'' | ||
2.The status or existence of such benefit or advantage. | 2.The status or existence of such benefit or advantage. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:00, 14 July 2021
Priviledge: a noun
the Wiktionary free dictionary.
- Etymology
From Old French privilège, from Latin privilegium an ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, legis, law.
1.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; 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?
2.The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
- In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege.
3.(law) a common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Privilege ]
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