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Meaning:
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; preferential treatment.
- legal a common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
- The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
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Verb:
- archaic To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
- 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.
Source: Wiktionary
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