prerogative
pri ro guh tiv
- n a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
- It is the prerogative of the ruling party to nominate the Governors of the various states.
- Lovers were once only a rich man's prerogative, but in today's urban China, married women like Zhu want it all, too.
- And so, whether a touch or a nod or a gaze, royal favor, like that of God, is not a subject's on demand; it is dispensed by kingly prerogative.