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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A payment or profit received in addition to a regular wage or salary, especially a benefit expected as one's due. See Synonyms at right.
  2. n. A tip; a gratuity.
  3. n. Something claimed as an exclusive right: "Politics was the perquisite of the upper class” ( Richard B. Sewall).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An incidental emolument, profit, gain, or fee, over and above the fixed or settled income, salary, or wages; something received incidentally and in addition to regular wages, salary, fees, etc.
  2. n. In law, whatever one gets by industry or purchases with his money, as distinguished from things which come to him by descent.
  3. That may or must be sought out.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mostly plural Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
  2. n. A gratuity.
  3. n. A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
  2. n. (Law) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
  2. n. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin perquisitum (something acquired for profit). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Middle English perquisites, property acquired otherwise than by inheritance, from Medieval Latin perquīsītum, acquisition, from Latin, neuter past participle of perquīrere, to search diligently for : per-, per- + quaerere, to seek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. pay
  1. profit

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. gratuity
  2. remuneration
  1. stipend
  2. sinecure
  1. immunities
  2. favors
  1. emolument
  2. overtime
  1. exemptions
  2. perk
  1. largess
  2. rent
  1. superannuation

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  1. appanage
  2. apanage
  1. drink money
  2. colt-ale
  1. appointment
  2. fee
  1. perquisite
  2. perk
  1. cad
  2. lock
  1. royalty

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  • goff Perquisite - lovely word...as is pazzazzamole...except that's not a word, rather, a concoction.
    Jul 18, 2012

  • yarb Citation on fob. Jul 28, 2008

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