exclusive privilege

collocation in English

meaningsofexclusiveandprivilege

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exclusive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈskluː.sɪv/us
/ɪkˈskluː.sɪv/
limited to only one person or group ...
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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 ofexclusiveandprivilegefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexclusive privilege

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In this subsection the corporation is given theexclusiveprivilegeor monopoly of running telecommunications systems as they are defined.
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We still have to debate the complicated business ofexclusiveprivilege.
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These amendments provide for a definition in terms of those systems covered by theexclusiveprivilegein clause 12(1).
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This subsection is no more than a definition of the phrase "services which the corporation has theexclusiveprivilegeof providing".
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I did not mean special increases which would be their ownexclusiveprivilege.
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However, it was essential that we should end thatexclusiveprivilege.
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There is no duty to provide any telecommunication services, and yet they haveexclusiveprivilegeto control.
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My noble friend said on an earlier occasion that theexclusiveprivilegewas limited to the running of telecommunications systems.
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The first reason — that it is consequential on the breaking up of theexclusiveprivilege—is a load of nonsense.
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But it is not the intention that any system involving light should be exempt from theexclusiveprivilege.
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As regardsexclusiveprivilegemuch of it has already gone, but much more of it might very properly go.
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We embarked upon this policy because the era ofexclusiveprivilegeended long ago in many things and there can be no justification for retaining it in telecommunications.
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It will have lost itsexclusiveprivilege.
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Before the reforms of 1957, education was theexclusiveprivilegeof the upper class, who could afford to send their children to private institutions.
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To this end they petitioned the states bordering the western rivers for a grant of anexclusiveprivilegeto ply their waters by steamboat.
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These post-riders were allowed theexclusiveprivilegeof carrying letters, papers and packages on their respective routes, and any person who infringed upon their rights was subject to a fine.
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These co-operatives would haveexclusiveprivilegeto the grapes grown in the region and where charged with making the wine that would be sold to private merchants.
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We have no desire for these exclusive privileges.
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It peaked in 1802 at 600, then the exclusive privileges expired, and other manufactures built bigger mills.
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