position of privilege
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpositionandprivilege
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position
noun
uk/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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privilege
noun
uk/ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/
an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or because they ...
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(Definition ofpositionandprivilegefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofposition of privilege
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The lack of knowledge and research on the powerful contributes to mystifying their roles and therefore maintains theirpositionofprivilegein society.
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Finally, campaigns for land reform provided an intensified challenge to the landed elite's traditionalpositionofprivilegeand political dominance.
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Herpositionofprivilegeis inflated and threatened in the same scene.
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Clinical activity is not apositionofprivilege, nor is it easy.
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We need much more consciously to even out thepositionofprivilegewith the general mass of our people.
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That implies that they will have to accept that thepositionofprivilegethat they formerly enjoyed will now be open to democratic reform.
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So it is not apositionofprivilege.
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They have apositionofprivilegein the industry which has existed since the last war.
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I have never been able to see why they should be put in thispositionofprivilege.
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If we intend to use thispositionofprivilege, we must be prepared to change.
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Although it has performed great service to mankind and still can perform great service, should it have thatpositionofprivilegewhich is denied to others?
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However, no such restrictions apply to individuals—whether they be in apositionofprivilegeor not—in trading on either the physical commodity or the futures markets.
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That is admittedly apositionofprivilegeand a non-political one, but there are occasions perhaps, even in politics, when the onlooker sees most of the game.
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Born from a wealthy family, he sees the world from apositionofprivilegeand is blind to the reality of those around him.
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Only in the last stanza do we learn what this references: the poet's own sorrow at having lost hispositionofprivilege.
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Local nobility were given greater access to this general language, and thus were likely more able to maintain their positions of privilege.
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Nomad had apositionofprivilegeas a soldier and as part of the elite guard assigned with protecting the upper heads of the new government.
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I have watched all the heavily defended positions of privilege which have eventually been given up.
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