revoke privilege
Frequency: 6.06.7 per million words
to officially take away a special right or advantage
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Examples (10)
- The committee decided to revoke his privilege to access classified documents.
- If you misuse the system, they will revoke your privilege immediately.
- The school threatened to revoke a student's privilege to use the library.
- Misconduct can cause the university to revoke your academic privileges.
- The court has the authority to revoke driving privileges for serious offenses.
- Parents often revoke certain privileges if their children misbehave.
- Will they revoke our voting privilege if we don't register?
- The government moved to revoke the special privileges granted to the former regime.
- He feared they might revoke his membership privileges after the incident.
- To maintain order, the moderator had to revoke the user's posting privilege.