EXCLUSIVE RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exclusive right mean? 

• EXCLUSIVE RIGHT (noun)
  The noun EXCLUSIVE RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

  Familiarity information: EXCLUSIVE RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCLUSIVE RIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

exclusive right; perquisite; prerogative; privilege

Context example:

suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males

Hypernyms ("exclusive right" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exclusive right"):

easement ((law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land))

privilege of the floor (the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session)

 Context examples 

A document or statement granting exclusive right to own, publish, and sell literary, musical, or artistic work, or intellectual property.

(Copyright, NCI Thesaurus)

We should like, also, to discuss with you the drawing up of a contract for a term of years, say ten, during which we shall have the exclusive right of publishing in book-form all that you produce.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)