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.