privileged status
Advantaged social position
Privileged status is a position that confers advantages not available to others—special access, exemptions, or protections.
The phrase appears in legal, social, and institutional contexts: Diplomatic immunity grants privileged status to foreign officials.
In discussions of social inequality, it often describes unearned advantages based on race, class, or other characteristics: His privileged status shielded him from scrutiny.
- upper classWealthiest societal stratum
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- eliteSuperior select group
- old moneyLong-established family fortune
exemption · immunity · wealth disparity · affluence · preferential treatment · special treatment · nobility · caste system · financial security · tenure · entitlement · bourgeoisie · birthright · trust fund · gentry · silver spoon · born into · income inequality
privileged statussocial exclusion
Denial of societal participation
powerlessness · dispossession · poverty · subjugation · underclass
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