to privilege
1
6.1
- verb
- /ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ/
:
privilegiar
- The new policy will privilege students who demonstrate exceptional talent in science and mathematics.
Examples
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The new paradigm does not privilege any pedagogical routine.
Academic text (2002) -
University classroom cultures often privilege textual meaning over the working-class experiences that many non-traditional students bring with them into graduate classrooms.
Academic text (2016) -
You would say no to a system which privileges one gender over the other.
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Active approaches to language arts, which use literature and the arts, disrupt dominant pedagogies that tend to privilege print alone.
Academic text (2013) -
One could easily imagine that the United States' insistence on adopting the SPS agreement was carried out in an effort to privilege risk assessment in the document.
Academic text (2013) -
In this sense, dominant cultural, political, and economic forces that privilege the interests of Whites permeate the logic and rationale of education policies and norms.
Academic text (2013) -
The discourse that held the most promise of raising new and improved voices was argumentative writing, given that the CCSS privileges argumentation as the means by which authors exercise their agency and power as critical, independent thinkers.
Academic text (2013) -
In this company, they privilege teamwork and collaboration over individual achievements.
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The program is designed to privilege marginalized communities by providing them access to resources and support.
Synonyms
427
3.7
Give someone the right to do or have something
286
2.0
To give someone special help or treatment
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
31
7.2
A rule that keeps what you tell your lawyer secret unless you agree
- Specialized
1
8.5
The right to refuse to answer questions that could make you look guilty in court
A legal rule that stops a husband or wife from talking about private conversations during their marriage
- Formal
A right that stops a spouse from being forced to tell private conversations with their spouse during marriage in court
- Formal
The government's right to refuse to give a secret witness's name in a trial
- Literature
A legal right that lets a reporter refuse to name a secret source in some court cases
- Jargon
The right to enter a parliament or assembly as a non-member and speak during a meeting
- Formal
A legal right that keeps what a patient tells their doctor private unless the patient agrees to share it
How Permissive
427
3.7
1
6.1
489
4.4
531
1.5
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
To privilege someone comes from Latin privus ('private') and lex ('law'), so it literally means 'to make a special rule for someone'. That's why to privilege someone is to give them a special right or immunity not enjoyed by others.