perquisite
noun
per·qui·site
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Definition of perquisite
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Examples of perquisite in a Sentence
Use of the company's jet is a perquisite of the job.
give the movers a perquisite if they do a good job
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To be sure, Mayorga’s civil case would have been strengthened by Ronaldo being charged, but a charge is a not perquisite to the case. — Michael Mccann, SI.com, "Why Cristiano Ronaldo Won't Face Charges and What Comes Next in Rape Case," 22 July 2019 The parking perquisite has evolved into a point of pride. — Melissa Korn, WSJ, "Among the Lesser-Known Nobel Prize Perks: Free Parking," 7 Oct. 2018 Companies can offer it as a perquisite for employees or something an employee pays a few dollars for out of each paycheck. — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, "Loss of Life Advocates guides loved ones through tangled affairs of death," 13 May 2018 The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites, such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company’s plane. — Stephen Singer, courant.com, "Aetna: 2017 Compensation For CEO Bertolini Neared $59 Million," 7 Apr. 2018 Total pay—including salary, cash incentives, equity, perquisites and more—rose at least 9.9% for half the executives, the fastest annual growth since 2014, while about a quarter of the executives received raises of 25% or more. — Theo Francis And Joann S. Lublin, WSJ, "Median CEO Pay Hit Record of Nearly $12 Million in 2017, Juiced by Markets," 21 Mar. 2018 The misuse of government travel and other perquisites of office has been a persistent theme of the Trump administration. — Shane Harris, Washington Post, "Susan Pompeo’s role as ‘first lady of the CIA’ draws critics and defenders," 19 Mar. 2018 Yet even after these industrial and financial titans had begun to avail themselves of such perquisites, our heads of state maintained lingering reservations about priority treatment. — Gideon Lewis-kraus, New York Times, "Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class," 23 Jan. 2018 As the job market tightens, many employers are creating more perquisites and positive work environments for workers. — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, "America's split-screen economy," 9 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'perquisite.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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