privilege vs recall

privilege

noun
  • A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members. 

  • An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope. 

  • An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something). 

  • A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court. 

  • An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users. 

  • A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment. 

  • The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society. 

recall

noun
  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

verb
  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

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