Definitions for privileged

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privileged priv·i·leged

Spelling: [priv-uh-lijd, priv-lijd]

IPA: /ˈprɪv ə lɪdʒd, ˈprɪv lɪdʒd/

Privileged is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 340 anagrams from letters in privileged (deegiilprv).

Definitions for privileged

noun

1. a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most:
2. a special right, immunity, or exemption granted to persons in authority or office to free them from certain obligations or liabilities:
3. a grant to an individual, corporation, etc., of a special right or immunity, under certain conditions.
4. the principle or condition of enjoying special rights or immunities.
5. any of the rights common to all citizens under a modern constitutional government:
6. an advantage or source of pleasure granted to a person:
7. Stock Exchange. an option to buy or sell stock at a stipulated price for a limited period of time, including puts, calls, spreads, and straddles.

adjective

1. belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored:
2. entitled to or exercising a privilege.
3. restricted to a select group or individual:
4. Law. 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.
5. Navigation. (of a vessel) having the right of way.

verb (used with object)

1. to grant a privilege to.
2. to exempt (usually followed by from).
3. to authorize or license (something otherwise forbidden).

Origin of privileged

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at privilege, -ed², -ed³

Examples for privileged

My sex, you may have heard, is privileged to change of mind.

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

The mountain tops are only noble because from them we are privileged to behold the plains.

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

Maybe at one point I would have envied these students who grew up in privileged families so often laden with trust funds.

But what the privileged orders can no longer prevent, they are determined to stultify.

A million of its inhabitants are members of the privileged classes.

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

I have been privileged to take them home and arrange them in my room and Dana's.

I am one who will march for life and will continue to stand up in defense of life as long as I am privileged to be in office.