English-French translations for immunity

• immunité
  Immunités parlementaires: voir procès-verbal Parliamentary immunity: see Minutes
  Je vote pour la levée de son immunité. I voted to waive her immunity.
  Le prochain privilège concerne l'immunité. The next privilege is immunity.
• franchise
  J’ai décidé de ne pas fuir mes responsabilités pour dire à Bruno Gollnisch, publiquement et en toute franchise, pourquoi je ne défendrai pas son immunité. I decided not to shirk my responsibilities in order to tell Mr Gollnisch, publicly and quite frankly, why I will not defend his immunity.

Definition of immunity

• The state of being insusceptible to something; notably
• A resistance to a specific thing

Examples

• Some people have better immunity to diseases than others
• Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities
• The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron
• After winning the last round the player was granted immunity which allowed him to stay in the game even after receiving the fewest points
• Superbugs are bacteria that develop an immunity to antibiotics

Related words

• autoimmunity
• alloimmunity
• herd immunity
• humoral immunity
• diplomatic immunity
• cell-mediated immunity
• qualified immunity
• Cell immunity
• acquired immunity