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Meaning of privilegism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A social system in which some people have privileges that others do not.

uncountable

Examples

“Again it is clear that Morris, carrying through his ideas of historic evolution, believes that privilegism (or oligarchy) on which most societies have sooner or later come to be based, and on which they have sooner or later fallen, must […]”
“Clientelism, privilegism, and “every-man-for-himself-ism” converged, for example, within an increasingly degraded administrative environment, towards growing general contempt for the anonymous user […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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