Thesaurus results for PERQUISITE

perquisite

noun

ˈpər-kwə-zət

as in bonus

a small sum of money given for a service over and above what is due give the movers a perquisite if they do a good job

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as in dividend

something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed the use of a company car is one perquisite of the job

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Recent Examples on the Web Employees that survived the layoffs were sad that their friends were no longer at the company, and that the perquisites — the little extras that made work fun — were reduced, multiple current and former workers said. —

Aisha Counts, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023 But that perquisite may soon be ending. —

William Cohan, Town & Country, 18 Aug. 2022 The Hemlock Quarterly, an unassuming little newsletter that until recently was the chief perquisite of membership in the Hemlock Society, may have been the only radical publication in the United States whose subscriber rolls were dominated by affluent white women with gray hair. —

Anne Fadiman, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021 Casual swearing is a great perquisite of adulthood, and one of the first that kids attempt to seize for themselves. —

Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020 See all Example Sentences for perquisite

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