意味(日本語)

特権、特典を与える、特典 ◇privi(＝private) ＝ 一個人に限られた法律

語源

• leg- : L.legalis = lawful(合法な)

意味(英語)

• (noun) A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. See Synonyms at right.
• (noun) Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
• (noun) The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity: a society based on privilege.
• (noun) Law The right to privileged communication in a confidential relationship, as between client and attorney, patient and physician, or communicant and priest.
• (noun) An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.

例文

• V. iii.129 (478,1) Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,/My oath, and my profession] The _privilege_ of this _oath_ means the privilege gained by taking the oath administered in the regular initiation of a knight professed.