An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Used in a Sentence
privileges
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for privileges.
Editorial note
The highway is for people not machines, the machines should not be given privileges that the humans do not have.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of privileges gathered in one view.
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
(law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for privileges.
noun
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
noun
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
noun
(law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
noun
(countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.
Example sentences
The highway is for people not machines, the machines should not be given privileges that the humans do not have.
The project is a frontend to cryptsetup[1] and tcplay[2],both of these tools use the services of dm-crypt and dm-crypt requires root privileges.
The problem is that Stagefright is an over-privileged application with system access on some devices, which enables privileges similar to apps with root access.
DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP.
What happens is the application will end up requiring dozens of roles juggling easily a hundred (discrete) privileges.
Anything that question the privileges of those currently in power will meet heavy resistance (or inertia).
Yeah, only it's mostly true for the rest of EU as well which means that similar privileges are enjoyed by some 400M people, not so tiny nation now, eh?
And you need to grow bulk modification interfaces and import interfaces for those user/roles/privileges.
My flagging privileges have since been magically returned though, so maybe I was on a year long time out?
It's a good tool for dropping privileges from a process, but it doesn't even attempt to solve the same problem that SELinux does.
This was just painful to read about how little the author understands about basic economics and the privileges afforded to that ONE tiny nation.
Changing your own password is not the same as acquiring root privileges.
Quote examples
If our species is going to extend these privileges to non-breeding "couples", then why stop there?
I used to do exactly this and my flagging privileges were "taken away", and this was with flagging at most 5 stories a day.
> you obviously don't have kids "kids" should never have administrative privileges on the system (up to the point they can burn a CD - then they can have admin privileges because with enough googling they can do it themselves).
But there were still plenty of gentry left, and so a deal was struck: we (the peasants) get old age pensions and some trifling property ownership and a handful of other "benefits" and protections, and you get to retain the landed class privileges you've constructed and...
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use privileges in a sentence?
The highway is for people not machines, the machines should not be given privileges that the humans do not have.
What does privileges mean?
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
What part of speech is privileges?
privileges is commonly used as noun.