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noun 
  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.
  2. a common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: voorrecht
  • French: privilège(fr)m
  • German: Privileg
  • Italian: privilegio(it)m
  • Spanish: privilegio(es)m
verb (privileg, ing)
  1. (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
  2. (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Etymology: From privilège, from privilegium an ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, legis, law.


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