adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a privileged position
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The public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
a privileged upbringing (= when someone has advantages because their family is wealthy )
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Due to his privileged upbringing, he finds it difficult to identify with ordinary people.
a privileged/wealthy background
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All the top jobs were taken by people from privileged backgrounds.
the privileged class (= people with advantages because of their wealth, social position etc )
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Holidays abroad used to be only for the rich and privileged classes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
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Most trainees enjoy privileged access to top executives.
background
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In addition a doctor mentioned the advantage of his privileged background and several people indicated that they came from medical families.
class
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Control of kinship linkages lies at the heart of privileged class reproduction.
position
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Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position .
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Can they reach point B, thereby preserving their privileged position as insiders?
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Men are in a very privileged position .
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The Corinthians are not in the privileged position of judges between theological niceties.
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For most students education in the universities and professional and technical colleges promised access to a relatively privileged position in society.
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Of these five children two others also gave up their privileged positions in society to promote a new order.
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The privileged position of the nobility seemed threatened, too, by the growing professionalization of the bureaucracy and the army.
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Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
status
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The settlers were determined to retain their privileged status .
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Their old privileged status is gone.
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They had no specially privileged status .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the (privileged/chosen) few
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A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.
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But then Jeffries said that that article was one of the few that had examined his ideas on the merits.
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Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity.
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Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.
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I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open.
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Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him.
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The major drawback for all immigrant firms has been the difficulty in recruiting the few highly skilled key workers essential to production.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a member of the privileged class
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In many countries today only a privileged minority get the chance of going to university.
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Taylor enjoyed privileged access to the presidential files.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for the army, it is a proud and privileged , secretive and insulated institution.
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I really enjoyed our conversations and feel privileged to have shared their very personal experiences.
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It was an ancient, historic weapon that d'Arquebus had been privileged to handle.
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Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
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Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre's life both intellectually and emotionally.
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Their old privileged status is gone.
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There were a number of such privileged gatehouse stations to the aristocracy.
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Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted.