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Definition of "unprivileged" []

  • Not having special privileges, opposite of privileged. (adjective)
  • Not requiring special privileges (adjective)

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Use "unprivileged" in a sentence
  • "Combatants who do not fulfil the requisite criteria for POW status (who, for example, do not carry arms openly) or civilians who have taken a direct part in hostilities in an international armed conflict (so-called "unprivileged" or "unlawful" belligerents) are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention provided they are enemy nationals."
  • "In the case of a shortage of "unprivileged" recruits, permission was given to draft not only Jews enjoying, by their family status, the third and second class privileges, but also those of the first class, i.e., to deprive Jewish parents of their only sons."
  • ""The law was amended by Sen. Sessions last summer during the debate over the annual defense authorization bill to make clear detainees who are 'part of Al Qaeda' are deemed 'unprivileged' enemy combatants under the law.""
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