Privilege

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

See Call, Put, Spread, etc.

3. Verb

To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

4. Verb

To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

5. Noun

a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"
Vocabulary classified under Law

6. Noun

(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Vocabulary classified under Law

7. Noun

a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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