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Privileged vs Inheritance - What's the difference?

privileged | inheritance |

As a verb privileged

is (privilege).

As an adjective privileged

is having special privileges.

As a noun inheritance is

the passing of title to an estate upon death.

privileged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (privilege)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having special privileges.
  • (legal) Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.

    • inheritance

    English

    (wikipedia inheritance)

    Alternative forms

    * enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • (lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  • (lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

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