Word.ws English Dictionary

exorbitant privilege

exorbitant privilege noun: the benefits afforded to the United States due to its currency (the United States dollar) being the favored international reserve currency.

Noun

exorbitant privilege (uncountable)

  1. The benefits afforded to the United States due to its currency (the United States dollar) being the favored international reserve currency.

Questions about exorbitant privilege

What does exorbitant privilege mean?
Exorbitant privilege means the benefits afforded to the United States due to its currency (the United States dollar) being the favored international reserve currency.
What part of speech is exorbitant privilege?
Exorbitant privilege is a noun.

Words near exorbitant privilege in the dictionary

  1. exorbitance
  2. exorbitances
  3. exorbitancies
  4. exorbitancy
  5. exorbitant
  6. exorbitant privilege
  7. exorbitantly
  8. exorbitate
  9. exorbitated
  10. exorbitates
  11. exorbitating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exorbitant privilege (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “exorbitant privilege.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/exorbitant_privilege. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.