privileged
belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
entitled to or exercising a privilege.
restricted to a select group or individual: privileged information; a privileged position.
Law. (of utterances or communications)
not rendering the person making them liable to prosecution for libel or slander, in view of the attendant circumstances.
not requiring any testimony concerning them to be presented in court.
Navigation. (of a vessel) having the right of way.
Origin of privileged
1Other words from privileged
- non·priv·i·leged, adjective
- qua·si-priv·i·leged, adjective
- un·priv·i·leged, adjective
- Compare burdened.
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How to use privileged in a sentence
The privileged classes must be ordained by Nature to rule over the non-privileged.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) | John MorleyFor the non-privileged classes the knout or the lash supplemented nearly all punishments of a criminal kind.
Russia | Donald Mackenzie Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for privileged
/ (ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒd) /
enjoying or granted as a privilege or privileges
law
not actionable as a libel or slander
(of a communication, document, etc) that a witness cannot be compelled to divulge
nautical (of a vessel) having the right of way
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