Reputation vs Privilege - What's the difference?
reputation | privilege |
What somebody is known for.
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, year=1529
, author=John Frith
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, title=A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis,
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.
As nouns the difference between reputation and privilege
is that reputation is reputation while privilege is .reputation
English
(wikipedia reputation)Noun
(en noun)citation, chapter= , isbn= , publisher=Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten] , location= , editor= , volume_plain= , page=117 , passage=And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people. }}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "reputation": good, great, excellent, bad, stellar, tarnished, evil, damaged, dubious, spotless, terrible, ruined, horrible, lost, literary, corporate, global, personal, academic, scientific, posthumous, moral, artistic.Synonyms
* nameDerived terms
* reputationalExternal links
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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 .