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deprivilege

deprivilege verb: to strip of privilege.

Verb

deprivilege (third-person singular simple present deprivileges, present participle deprivileging, simple past and past participle deprivileged)

  1. (transitive) To strip of privilege.
    • If literacy deprivileges the orality of language, literacy in English, in this context, deprivileges not only Jamaican but the orthography that revalorises the language as autonomous system.1995, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood, page 13

Forms of deprivilege

third-person singular presentdeprivileges
present participledeprivileging
past participledeprivileged
pastdeprivileged

Origin of deprivilege

From de- + privilege.

Questions about deprivilege

What does deprivilege mean?
Deprivilege means to strip of privilege.
What part of speech is deprivilege?
Deprivilege is a verb.
What is the past tense of deprivilege?
The past tense of deprivilege is deprivileged.

Words near deprivilege in the dictionary

  1. deprivement
  2. deprivements
  3. depriver
  4. deprivers
  5. deprives
  6. deprivilege
  7. deprivileged
  8. deprivileges
  9. deprivileging
  10. depriving
  11. deproblematization

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