privilege

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Allowing and permitting
admission
admit
admit of something
allow of something
allowable
authorization
authorize
consent
entrance
give the green light to somethingidiom
given the chance/choiceidiom
green-light
hall pass
hospital admission
liberty
relicensure
say-so
security clearance
see your way (clear) to doing somethingidiom
sublicence

prerogative | American Dictionary

prerogative
noun[ C ]
us/prɪˈrɑɡ·ə·t̬ɪv/
a special advantage that allows some people the freedom to do or have something that is not possible or allowed for everyone:
It’s the president’s prerogative to nominate judges who share his political philosophy.

Examples of prerogative

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It was the statistics office that assumed the prerogative of selection.
These were the areas, he argued, in which the struggle between the royal prerogative and ' constitutional forces ' - as he defined ' politics ' - took place.
The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
The act of conceding such benefits took on the institutional form of privilege, by virtue of which the beneficiary enjoyed a series of special prerogatives.
As long as markets could be defined for all activity, failure remained the sole prerogative of nonconvexity.
Central bankers now viewed political pressure as unwarranted interference into the central bank's legal and moral prerogative to conduct independent monetary policy.
The speech ideally mixes gloom and worry with hope and resolution by asserting the executive's legislative prerogatives.
The emergence of this system had rendered most of the monarch's formal prerogatives obsolete.
Compliance with the formal rules is unlikely and irrational when judges are punished for attempting to limit the prerogatives of the president.
The repeated resort to the so-called decrees of ' urgency and need ' represent a clear invasion of legislative prerogatives by the executive.
The general pardons which invariably accompanied royal successions underscored mercy as a prerogative of power.
In fact, it may be the prerogative of a ' think piece ' to provide precisely that.
For, if true, it indicates that the power to make critical allocative decisions was not, as most scholars assume, a prerogative of the state.
Their disagreements are reflected in the extent to which they have resorted to their national prerogative to request additional national regulatory requirements.
The defence of royal prerogative in matters ecclesiastical had a long high church lineage.
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