A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

A set of benefits that accrues to individuals or groups which allows them easier access to resources and greater assumptions of propriety.

The level assigned for each user that defines the range of action a user can have on the local area network.

An authorization for a user to either access or perform certain tasks on objects stored in the system. Privileges are assigned by the Content Manager system administrator.

The VO Privilege Project implements finer-grained authorization for access to grid-enabled resources and services in order to improve user account assignment and management at grid sites, and reduce the associated administrative overhead. Depending on its implementation, privilege relies on, interfaces to and further develops at least some of the following independent pieces of VO-implemented and site-implemented authorization software: VOMS, VOMRS, Grid-map callout interface, GUMS, and SAZ. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | W | X | Y | Z

A discrete right on a process in a Solaris system. Privileges offer a finer-grained control of processes than does root. Privileges are defined and enforced in the kernel. For a full description of privileges, see the privileges(5) man page.

a benefit extended to a relationship or a communication that protects the relationship or communication from disclosure to others

a unequal relationship where an individual is given more benefits based on their race, economic background or other source of unequal power relationship between people

Protection against disclosure of information based on communications made in confidence between parties having legally protected relationships. Based on the policy that it is better to have frank, open communications between parties in certain relationships by protecting these communications from disclosure in litigation. Pertains to communications between attorney/client, doctor/patient, priest/penitent, and husband/wife.

Benefits and power from institutional inequalities. Individuals and groups may be privileged without realizing, recognizing, or even wanting it.