# privileged

Pronunciation: say "PRIV-uh-lijd" /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒd/

## Adjective

1. Enjoying special rights, advantages, or opportunities not available to most other people.
   - Simple: Having more rights, money, or chances than most other people.
   - _He came from a privileged background and never had to worry about money._
   - _A privileged elite controlled most of the country's wealth._
3. Protected by law from disclosure, so that it cannot be demanded as evidence in legal proceedings.
   - Simple: Protected by law so that it does not have to be shared as evidence in a court case.
   - _The court ruled that the conversation was privileged and excluded it from evidence._
   - _Privileged communications between a client and an attorney stay confidential._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of privilege. — simple past and past participle of privilege
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of privilege. Use this form for something that already happened or after has, have, or was.
   - _The reform privileged urban districts at the expense of rural ones._
   - _Wealthy donors were privileged with early access to the event._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/privileged (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).