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privileged

[ priv-uh-lijd, priv-lijd ]

adjective

  1. belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored:

    the privileged few.

  2. entitled to or exercising a privilege.
  3. restricted to a select group or individual:

    privileged information; a privileged position.

  4. Law. (of utterances or communications)
    1. not rendering the person making them liable to prosecution for libel or slander, in view of the attendant circumstances.
    2. not requiring any testimony concerning them to be presented in court.
  5. Navigation. (of a vessel) having the right of way.


privileged

/ ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒd /

adjective

  1. enjoying or granted as a privilege or privileges
  2. law
    1. not actionable as a libel or slander
    2. (of a communication, document, etc) that a witness cannot be compelled to divulge
  3. nautical (of a vessel) having the right of way
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • non·privi·leged adjective
  • quasi-privi·leged adjective
  • un·privi·leged adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of privileged1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; privilege + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

“Sweden is one of the most medically privileged and healthcare privileged nations on the planet,” Vermund says.

Kaguya knows her elevated status is what her parents dreamed of for her, so that she could live the privileged life they never had.

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The presumption of innocence, once seen as a liberal conceit aimed at protecting the oppressed, is ridiculed as justification to guard the racially privileged.

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Josefowitz highlighted her relatively privileged circumstances, namely attentive staff and zero coronavirus cases in the beachfront building.

Now the dining room was considered as a privileged place by the ancient Romans.

Thomas Sadoski should be the frontrunner to play every smarmy privileged thirty-something from now on.

These posts are still available in archives that are only viewable to privileged members of the forum.

Privileged children tend to live in higher-performing school districts.

“My experience was very ordinary, but very privileged,” she said.

I still miss my friend, a girl from a privileged white family that had a multi-generation history in a sorority at USC.

Aunt Ri was a privileged character, but her logical method of questioning was inconvenient.

Bacon's Rebellion is remembered in history primarily as a revolt of the plain, common man against a privileged few.

But a woman is not, I believe, considered as privileged to know any thing by these commercial personages.

Statements rendered by mercantile or collection agencies to inquirers for business purposes are clearly privileged.

Every member and every servant of the Company was to be privileged against impressment and arrest.

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