PRIVILEGE AGAINST SELF INCRIMINATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself

Synonyms:

freedom from self-incrimination; privilege against self incrimination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("privilege against self incrimination" is a kind of...):

civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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