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/pɹˈɪvɪlɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈpɹɪvɪɫədʒ, ˈpɹɪvɪɫɪdʒ, ˈpɹɪvɫədʒ, ˈpɹɪvɫɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪvɪɫədʒ, ˈpɹɪvɪɫɪdʒ, ˈpɹɪvɫədʒ, ˈpɹɪvɫɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
- bestow a privilege upon
NOUN
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a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males - (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
- a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
How To Use privilege In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
- With the Shared Model architecture, changes made in one process element are (depending on access privileges) immediately visible and accessible to other process elements.
- Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Remember that even if your surgery is performed in an office or surgicenter, your surgeon should have hospital privileges to perform that procedure. You: On a Diet
- How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
- This blogger is a seriously insecure woman who needs to examine her shaky sense of privilege before again attempting to write about transpeople. The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office
- The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.
- The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting