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privileged document

noun

C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A document that a party may withhold from inspection because it attracts legal privilege.

Advice from counsel is a privileged document and need not be produced to the other side.

Topic: Litigation in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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