Synonyms of privileges

privileges 1 of 2

noun

plural of privilege

as in honors

something granted as a special favor

the town's oldest resident will have the privilege of leading the parade kicking off the Heritage Celebration

Synonyms & Similar Words

• honors
• concessions
• rights
• courtesies
• exemptions
• boons
• prerogatives
• entitlements
• appanages
• immunities
• grants
• perquisites
• claims
• waivers
• charters
• patents
• birthrights

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• duties
• obligations
• responsibilities
• burdens

privileges

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of privilege

as in entitles

to give a right to

only professionals who meet the education and experience requirements set by law are privileged to use the title "interior designer" in Oklahoma

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entitles
• qualifies
• authorizes
• enables
• permits
• empowers
• licenses
• allows
• certificates
• approves
• enfranchises
• endorses
• sanctions
• lets
• charters
• legitimizes
• ratifies
• validates
• warrants
• certifies
• reapproves
• recharters
• reaccredits
• recertifies
• accredits
• revalidates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disqualifies
• disables
• forbids
• disenfranchises
• proscribes
• disempowers
• disallows
• invalidates
• nullifies
• decertifies
• delegitimizes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of privileges

Noun

The path Republicans take is not entirely up to him, however, given that an individual senator has enough privileges to grind floor business to a crawl. — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026

The policy, at the forefront of debate over the intersection of age bias and safety, requires physicians age 70 and older who are applying to obtain or renew hospital privileges to undergo vision and neuro-psychological examination. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026

These privileges allow the malware to install additional apps without permission, remove existing applications and grant sensitive access to other software. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

After hearing pleas from more than a dozen prominent community and business leaders, commissioners agreed to decertify the entertainment district and strip it of its special privileges. — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Southwest is revamping elite status, and status benefits will include Companion Pass privileges. — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Police emphasized that payment alone does not restore driving privileges; all applicable requirements must be completed and processed. — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Advertisement The revolution still to come At the heart of the French Revolution of 1789 was the abolition of the privileges of the aristocracy and clergy. — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

This is important to me, because as much as these tech companies claim to be upending everything with AI and claiming extraordinarily special privileges as a result, there is still legal gravity constraining them. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

Verb

While the Blue Demon induces perceptual disorientation, the Rooster privileges visual attention and the architectural discipline of gaze. — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026

That privileges independent voters for whom name recognition might matter more than ideology. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026

Beijing, in other words, is pioneering a kind of statecraft that privileges quiet, subnational capture over big, flashy projects. — Natalia Cote-Muñoz, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026

If the Dodgers hadn’t brilliantly exploited an MLB economic system that privileges big-market teams, the Padres wouldn’t be so beholden to the wild-card option year after year. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

Conceived as an exercise in radical reduction, the movement reflects a design philosophy that privileges essential structure over accumulation. — Richard Mille Contributor, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Jenkin privileges atmosphere through the collection of minute, sometimes abstract details. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 June 2026

Today’s structure typically privileges wealthier and long-term homeowners over new owners and renters. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 June 2026

The vulnerability is a local privilege escalation, meaning it can be chained to a separate vulnerability to give users or processes with low-level privileges the ability to defeat OS protections and gain full SYSTEM rights needed to install malware. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026