Definition of privileges:
(n) :
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; a
common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as
evidence in court
(v) :
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