PRIVILEGED


Meaning of PRIVILEGED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a privileged position

The public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.

a privileged upbringing (= when someone has advantages because their family is wealthy )

Due to his privileged upbringing, he finds it difficult to identify with ordinary people.

a privileged/wealthy background

All the top jobs were taken by people from privileged backgrounds.

the privileged class (= people with advantages because of their wealth, social position etc )

Holidays abroad used to be only for the rich and privileged classes.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

access

Most trainees enjoy privileged access to top executives.

background

In addition a doctor mentioned the advantage of his privileged background and several people indicated that they came from medical families.

class

Control of kinship linkages lies at the heart of privileged class reproduction.

position

Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position .

Can they reach point B, thereby preserving their privileged position as insiders?

Men are in a very privileged position .

The Corinthians are not in the privileged position of judges between theological niceties.

For most students education in the universities and professional and technical colleges promised access to a relatively privileged position in society.

Of these five children two others also gave up their privileged positions in society to promote a new order.

The privileged position of the nobility seemed threatened, too, by the growing professionalization of the bureaucracy and the army.

Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.

status

The settlers were determined to retain their privileged status .

Their old privileged status is gone.

They had no specially privileged status .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the (privileged/chosen) few

A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.

But then Jeffries said that that article was one of the few that had examined his ideas on the merits.

Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity.

Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.

I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open.

Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him.

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

a member of the privileged class

In many countries today only a privileged minority get the chance of going to university.

Taylor enjoyed privileged access to the presidential files.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As for the army, it is a proud and privileged , secretive and insulated institution.

I really enjoyed our conversations and feel privileged to have shared their very personal experiences.

It was an ancient, historic weapon that d'Arquebus had been privileged to handle.

Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.

Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre's life both intellectually and emotionally.

Their old privileged status is gone.

There were a number of such privileged gatehouse stations to the aristocracy.

Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted.

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