°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.
"All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?"
°The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
"In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege."
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.
°(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
synonyms:
prerogative, immunity, franchise, right
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, claim, liberty, advantage