Usually means: Unearned advantages based on characteristics.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word privilege:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. privilege: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. privilege: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. privilege: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. privilege: Collins English Dictionary
  5. privilege: Vocabulary.com
  6. Privilege, privilege: Wordnik
  7. privilege: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. privilege: Wiktionary
  9. privilege: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. privilege: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. privilege: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. privilege: Dictionary.com
  13. privilege: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. privilege: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Privilege (Computing), Privilege (Ivor Cutler album), Privilege (Set Me Free), Privilege (canon law), Privilege (computer science), Privilege (evidence), Privilege (film), Privilege (insurance company), Privilege (law), Privilege (legal ethics), Privilege (social inequality), Privilege: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Privilege: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. privilege: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. privilege: Rhymezone
  19. privilege, privilege (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. privilege: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. privilege: Free Dictionary
  22. privilege: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. privilege: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. privilege: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Privilege (computing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. privilege: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. privilege: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. Privilege: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Privilege (law), privilege: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Privilege (law), privilege: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. privilege: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. privilege: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Privilege: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privilege: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
noun:  (countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
noun:  An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
noun:  (uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
noun:  A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
noun:  (countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.
noun:  (law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
noun:  (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
verb:  (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
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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