privilege

privilege is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

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.
2. noun. See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
3. transitive verb. To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
4. transitive verb. To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
5. noun. a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
6. noun. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

   "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"

   Synonyms: perquisite, prerogative

7. noun. (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
8. verb. bestow a privilege upon

   Synonyms: favor, favour

Synonyms

perquisite, prerogative, favor, favour

Common word forms

privileged, privileger, privileges, privileging

Words from these letters

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