| Main Entry: | privilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, due |
Synonyms: |
advantage, allowance, appanage, appurtenance, authority, authorization, benefit, birthright, boon, chance, charter, claim, concession, entitlement, event, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, grant, immunity, liberty, license, opportunity, perquisite, prerogative, right, sanction |
| Notes: | a privilege is a right that may be extended to a group or a number of people; a prerogative is a right that, customarily, is vested in a single person |
Antonyms: |
detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | charter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treaty, agreement |
Synonyms: |
allotment, bond, code, concession, constitution, contract, conveyance, deed, document, endowment, franchise, grant, indenture, license, pact, patent, permit, prerogative, privilege, right, settlement |
| Main Entry: | claim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | property, right demanded or reserved |
Synonyms: |
affirmation, allegation, application, assertion, birthright, call, case, counterclaim, declaration, demand, dibs, due, entreaty, interest, lien, part, petition, plea, postulation, prerogative, pretense, pretension, privilege, profession, protestation, reclamation, request, requirement, requisition, suit, title, ultimatum |
| Main Entry: | concession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yielding, adjustment |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, admission, allowance, assent, authorization, boon, buyback, compromise, confession, copout, deal, giveback, giving in, grant, indulgence, permission, permit, privilege, rollback, sellout, surrender, trade-off, warrant |
Antonyms: |
denial, difference, disagreement, disputation, fighting, protest, refusal, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | dibs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | claim |
Synonyms: |
dueness, entitlement, preemptive declaration, privilege, request, rights |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
Synonyms: |
exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
Antonyms: |
denial, veto |
| Main Entry: | dominion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of rule; authority |
Synonyms: |
ascendancy, authorization, bailiwick, command, commission, control, country, demesne, district, domain, dominance, domination, empire, enclave, field, government, jurisdiction, management, power, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, privilege, property, province, realm, regency, regiment, regimentation, region, reign, rule, seniority, sovereignty, sphere, state, stomping grounds, supremacy, sway, terrain, territory, turf, walk |
Antonyms: |
outside |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
Synonyms: |
be in line for, claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts, entitlement, guerdon, interest, merits, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, rights, satisfaction, title, vengeance, what is coming to one |
| Main Entry: | empower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | authorize, enable |
Synonyms: |
accredit, allow, capacitate, charge, commission, delegate, entitle, entrust, grant, invest, legitimize, license, okay, permit, privilege, qualify, sanction, vest, warrant |
Antonyms: |
disenfranchise, refuse, reject, revoke |
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
Synonyms: |
allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
Antonyms: |
normality, regularity, usualness |