perquisite
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- n an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
- n a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
- The perquisites of the CEOs is much more than their salaries and it is time that government looks at taxing perquisites very seriously.
- One unsurpassed perquisite of the office is its access to information: Presidents can find out practically anything they need or simply want to know.
- Put all these witty, rancid voices together and you hear the wail of a depleted nation that has lost nearly every imperial perquisite but the power to call other people idiots, and .