Definition: 1. A special right or advantage that a particular person or group of people has. 2. The rights and advantages that rich and powerful people in a society have. 3. Something that you are proud and lucky to have the opportunity to do.
Use 'prililege' in a sentence:
1. People believed it was a privilege to die for your country, but after the debacle of the war they never felt the same again.
2. Mr Nixon argued the tapes were privileged.
3. Tremendous wrongs were being perpetrated on the poorest and least privileged human beings.
4. So far, no documents are being withheld on grounds of executive privilege.
5. Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
6. Organized workers in positions of privilege, including many in the public sector, fight the hardest and squeal the most in defense of their benefits.
7. They are privileging a tiny number to the disadvantage of the rest.
8. I hope to have the privilege of working with them again.
9. A senior official was stripped of all his privileges for publicly criticising his employer.
10. Do we really want a return to an antiquated system of privilege and elitism?
11. This pattern of white privilege and black inequality continues today.
12. Having been born to privilege in old Hollywood, she was carrying on a family tradition by acting.
13. The left have seen the work as an apologia for privilege and property.
14. The data is privileged information, not to be shared with the general public.
15. "This can give white middle-class children a sense of superiority or privilege," Dr. Adam said.
16. I had the great privilege to play for my school.
17. They were, by and large, a very wealthy, privileged elite.
18. That is, of course, their privilege.
19. Ordinary people have always resented the nomenklatura's privileges.
20. It must be a privilege to know such a man.
21. In those days, only a privileged few had the vote.
22. I could set something up so that she could exercise the privilege of driving only between home and school, and only in the minivan (not the sport sedan).
23. I once had the privilege of meeting the late philosopher CLR James.
24. Privilege determined by birth is an offence to any modern sense of justice.
25. It's such a privilege, spending an entire term diving into a single body of work.
26. Sam joined us last September and it has been a real privilege to have him with us.
27. Access to education is an essential part of one's privilege regardless of one's gender, culture, and family background.
28. He had promised that the rich and privileged would no longer get preferential treatment.
29. We want to privilege them because without the top graduate students, we can't remain a top university.
30. He made the allegation under the protection of parliamentary privilege.
31. She was cocooned in a private world of privilege.
32. Is there anything you consider a burden rather than a privilege?
33. Six pences for the privilege of passing by the private road!
34. Pironi was the son of privilege and wealth, and it showed.
35. She answered without hesitation that, as far as she was concerned, this would be a "privilege".
36. He arrogated the privilege to himself alone.
37. His privileged bourgeois family insisted on a good education.
38. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse.
39. It was a great privilege to hear her sing.
40. Those in authority were in a privileged position.
41. This sense of privilege tends to be reinforced by the outside world.
42. Officials of all member states receive certain privileges and immunities.
43. As a member of the nobility, his life had been one of wealth and privilege.
44. The white children could tell their ages, I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.
45. Her attitudes solidified through privilege and habit.
46. She comes from a privileged background.
47. Members of the city council and distinguished guests, it is my privilege to introduce to you today, Mr.Smith.
48. Some of the officials have special privileges.
49. We are privileged to welcome you as our speaker this evening.
