Usually means: Special rights granted to individuals.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word privileges:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. privileges: Merriam-Webster
  2. privileges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. privileges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Privileges, privileges: Wordnik
  5. privileges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. privileges: Wiktionary
  7. privileges: Dictionary.com
  8. privileges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. privileges: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. privileges: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privileges: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privileges: Medical dictionary

(Note: See privilege as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (privilege)

noun:  (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
noun:  (countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
noun:  An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
noun:  (uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
noun:  A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
noun:  (countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.
noun:  (law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
noun:  (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
verb:  (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
verb:  (transitive) To prioritize.
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