Privilege may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Privilege'' (film), a 1967 film directed by Peter Watkins * ''Privilege'' (Ivor Cutler album), 1983 * ''Privilege'' (Television Personalities album), 1990 * '' Privilege (Abridged)'', an album by Parenthetical Girls, 2013 * " Privilege (Set Me Free)", a 1978 song by the Patti Smith Group * "Privilege" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), a television episode * "Privilege", a short story by Frederick Forsyth included in the collection '' No Comebacks'' * "Privilege", a song by Kevin Federline from the album ''Playing with Fire'' (Kevin Federline album)

Business

* Privilege (insurance company), a division of the Royal Bank of Scotland * Privilege Ibiza, a nightclub in Ibiza, Spain * Privilege Style, a Spanish charter airline *

Printing privilege The printing patent or printing privilege was a precursor of modern copyright. It was an exclusive right to print a work or a class of works. History Origins The earliest recorded printing privilege dates from 1469, giving John of Speyer a fi ...

, a precursor of copyright conferring exclusive publishing rights

Society and politics

Privilege (evidence) In the law of evidence, a privilege is a rule of evidence that allows the holder of the privilege to refuse to disclose information or provide evidence about a certain subject or to bar such evidence from being disclosed or used in a judicial or ...

, rules excluding certain confidential communication from being admissible as evidence in court *

Privilege (canon law) Privilege in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church is the legal concept whereby someone is exempt from the ordinary operation of the law over time for some specific purpose. Definition Papal privileges resembled dispensations, since both i ...

Privilege (law) A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity from prosecution, immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. Land-titles and taxi medallions are examples of transferable ...

, a permission granted by law or other rules *

Executive privilege Executive privilege is the right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications under certain circumstances within the executive branch and to resist some subpoenas and ot ...

, the claim by the President of the United States and other executives to immunity from legal process *

Parliamentary privilege Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties ...

Social privilege Social privilege is an advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others. Privileged groups can be advantaged based on social class, wealth, education, caste, age, height, skin col ...

, special status or advantages conferred on certain groups at the expense of other groups, such as: **

White privilege White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the Social privilege, societal privilege that benefits white people over Person of color, non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or ...

Male privilege Male privilege is the system of advantages or rights that are available to men on the basis of their sex. A man's access to these benefits may vary depending on how closely they match their society's ideal masculine norm. Academic studies ...

Body privilege Body privilege or pretty privilege is a concept used to examine the economic, social, and political advantages or benefits that are made to both men and women based solely on their physical attractiveness. Overview Body privilege is a relati ...

Other uses

Privilege (computing) In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority to perform security-relevant functions on a computer system. A privilege allows a user to perform an action with security consequences. Examples of various privileges include the ab ...

, the level of access granted in computer security *

Privilege Creek Privilege Creek is a stream in Bandera County, Texas and Kerr County, Texas, in the United States. Privilege Creek was so named in 1852 when a pioneer remarked it would be a "privilege" to settle at such a fine spot. See also *List of rivers of ...

, a river in Texas {{disambiguation