exclusive right

1. 1.

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

   “suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males”

   Synonymsprerogativeprivilegeperquisite

   Broaderright

   Narrowereasementprivilege of the floor

Questions about exclusive right

What does exclusive right mean?

exclusive right means "a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)".

What is another word for exclusive right?

Close synonyms include prerogative, privilege, perquisite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exclusive right a common word?

exclusive right is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.