privilege

  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; preferential treatment.
  2. Noun.  The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
  3. Noun.  (legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
  4. Verb.  (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.
  5. Verb.  (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

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