privileged communication
Law
noun
1A communication that may not be entered into evidence because of a protected relationship between the speakers (as an attorney and client, husband and wife, or doctor and patient).
2A communication made between such persons and in such circumstances that it is not actionable, unless made with malice.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- out of print
- out of proportion
- out-of-province
- out-of-round
- out-of-roundness
- out of season
- out-of-series
- out of service
- out of sight
- out of sight, out of mind
- out of sorts
- out of square
- out-of-state
- out-of-stater
- out of temper
- out of the blue
- out of the box
- out of the common
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- out of the game
- out of the handicap
- out of the ordinary
- out of the (or one's) road
- out of the picture
- out of the question