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privilege
 
Noun privilege has 3 senses
  1. privilege - a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
    --1 is a kind of     advantage, vantage
    Derived form: verb privilege1
  2. prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right - a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"
    --2 is a kind of right
    --2 has particulars: easement; privilege of the floor
    Derived form: verb privilege1
  3. privilege - (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
    --3 is a kind of     right
    --3 has particulars:
     attorney-client privilege; informer's privilege; journalist's privilege; marital communications privilege, husband-wife privilege; physician-patient privilege; priest-penitent privilege
Verb privilege has 1 sense
  1. privilege, favor, favour - bestow a privilege upon
    --1 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
    Derived forms: noun privilege1, noun privilege2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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