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Meanings of perquisite in English

Portuguese
direito exclusivo
Catalan
privilegi
Spanish
privilegio

A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

        direito exclusivo
        Catalan
        ajut
        Spanish
        ayuda

        An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)

              ajut
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              Examples for "perk"
              Examples for "perk"
              1
              Try search out one or two to try perk up your home.
              The South African
              2
              Another 4 percent even offer fully paid sabbaticals as a juicy perk.
              Reuters
              3
              Once their idea of a perk was a few drinks at Christmas.
              The Irish Times
              4
              Don't get the idea that this is some kind of a perk.
              Calamity jayne
              5
              Andy forgot his personal embarrassment and began to perk up his ears.
              The Happy Family
              1
              It's a fringe benefit of flyin' with Captain Wesley Dare.
              Acts of faith
              2
              They discussed fringe benefit tax until about midnight, when a neighbour made a noise complaint.
              Radio NZ
              3
              And what's this, a fringe benefit?
              The burglar who traded ted williams
              4
              Here, the northern man seemed to view such a conquest as a hoped-for fringe benefit rather than a right.
              The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
              5
              He went thinking that a fringe benefit of the trip would be emancipation from headlines about Tonya Harding, etc.
              The new yorker
              Usage of perquisite in English
              1
              The rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts.
              A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
              2
              They were the perquisite of a page who brought them to him.
              Letters from England, 1846-1849
              3
              These Irish acres were partly the Queen's perquisite from the Babington 'conspiracy.'
              Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Schola...
              4
              It is the perquisite of power to invent its own past.
              Julian
              5
              The luxury of another hour of sleep seemed the greatest perquisite of wealth.
              Brewster's Millions
              6
              The only onboard perquisite is an occasional self-service canister of coffee, Currie said.
              Reuters
              7
              The porter regarding same as his perquisite abstracted and hid it.
              Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit / A Guide for Those Who W...
              8
              The other part we supposed she had claimed as her perquisite.
              In the Eastern Seas
              9
              You may fancy whether we have just grounds for expecting a good perquisite.
              The Tiger Hunter
              10
              Bits of highgrade ore are their perquisite, they pretend to think.
              The Highgrader
              11
              Next year the Smiths acquired a motor-car which soon became Yaé's special perquisite.
              Kimono
              12
              Give you a perquisite!-no ,indeed ; Ineverpay for such favors.
              Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
              13
              That was the way in those days, and the cloth was the parson's perquisite.
              Sisters
              14
              The great demand for alkaline salts in bleaching rendered these ashes no inconsiderable perquisite.
              Castle Rackrent
              15
              Meanwhile the money accumulated in his hands, and its profits were his legitimate perquisite.
              Burke
              16
              Another perquisite is that the Pope must be easily visible, when onboard a Popemobile.
              The South African
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