English-Thai Dictionary

privileged

ADJ ที่ ได้เปรียบ  exempt vested ti-dai-priab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIVILEGED

pp. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right or immunity. The clergy in Great Britain were formerly a privileged body of men. No person is privileged from arrest for indictable crimes.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIVILEGED

PRIVILEGED Priv "i *leged, a.

 

Defn: Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law ) (a ) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b ) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. -- Privileged debts (Law ), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. Wharton. Burrill. -- Privileged witnesses (Law ) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

privileged

priv i leged |ˈpriv (ə )lijd ˈprɪv (ə )lɪʤd | ▶adjective having special rights, advantages, or immunities: in the nineteenth century, only a privileged few had the vote. • [ with infinitive ] having the rare opportunity to do something that brings particular pleasure: I felt I had been privileged to compete in such a race. • (of information ) legally protected from being made public: the intelligence reports are privileged.

 

Oxford Dictionary

privileged

priv ¦il |eged |ˈprɪvəlɪʤd | ▶adjective 1 having special rights, advantages, or immunities: in the nineteenth century only a privileged few had the vote. • [ with infinitive ] having been granted a special honour: I felt I had been privileged to compete in such a race. 2 (of information ) legally protected from being made public.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

privileged

privileged adjective 1 a privileged background: wealthy, rich, affluent, prosperous; lucky, fortunate, elite, favored; (socially ) advantaged. ANTONYMS underprivileged, disadvantaged. 2 privileged information: confidential, private, secret, restricted, classified, not for publication, off the record, inside; informal hush-hush. ANTONYMS public. 3 these foreign diplomats are privileged: immune (from prosecution ), protected, exempt, excepted. ANTONYMS liable.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

privileged

privileged adjective 1 she comes from a privileged background: wealthy, rich, affluent, prosperous; lucky, fortunate, special, elite, favoured, select; advantaged, socially advantaged. ANTONYMS underprivileged, disadvantaged. 2 he accused me of giving away privileged information: confidential, private, secret, top secret, restricted, classified, not for publication, off the record, inside; informal hush-hush; archaic privy. 3 the MP is privileged but the reporter and the publisher could face civil action: immune (from prosecution ), protected, exempt, excepted.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

privileged

priv i leged /prɪ́v (ə )lɪdʒd /形容詞 1 〖通例be ～〗特権的な ; «…する » 特権 [特典 ]を有する, «…して » 光栄である «to do » .2 ｟けなして ｠特権階級の .3 比較なし 〘法 〙証言を拒否できる, 秘匿権の ▸ privileged information 秘匿情報