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privilege

A permission or right. In information security, it refers to the modes of operation that a user or a process is granted. Examples include user-level privilege, operator privilege and supervisory privilege. The privilege indicator is a token or semaphore that is maintained by the security kernel. See access mode, privileged mode and capability.

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privilege

1. any of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the citizens of a country by its constitution

2. 

a. the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge information obtained in confidence from a client

b. the right claimed by any of certain other functionaries to refuse to divulge information

3. the rights and immunities enjoyed by members of most legislative bodies, such as freedom of speech, freedom from arrest in civil cases during a session, etc.

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Privilege 

the granting of some concession; a partial exemption from fulfilling established rules or obligations (tax privileges or pension privileges) or the easing of the conditions of their fulfillment.