husband-wife privilege

1. 1.

   neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married

   Synonymsmarital communications privilege

   Broaderprivilege

Questions about husband-wife privilege

What does husband-wife privilege mean?

husband-wife privilege means "neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married".

What is another word for husband-wife privilege?

Close synonyms include marital communications privilege. 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 husband-wife privilege a common word?

husband-wife privilege 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.