Privilege vs Supreme - What's the difference?
privilege | supreme |
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.
The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
(finance) A call, put, spread, or other option.
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.
(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.
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Dominant, having power over all others.
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(botany) Situated at the highest part or point.
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English adjectives commonly used as postmodifiers
(cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.
(cookery) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
(cookery) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
As a noun privilege
is .As a proper noun supreme is
the supreme being; the almighty; god.privilege
Alternative forms
* priviledg (obsolete) * priviledge (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege ?
- In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege .
- ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege .
Synonyms
* prerogative, immunity, freelage, franchise, right, claim, liberty, advantage, foredealDerived terms
* cisprivilegeVerb
(privileg)supreme
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Adjective
(en-adj)Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}