Meaning & use
perquisite
A benefit or privilege given in addition to regular wages, especially because of one's job.
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A company car was one of the perquisites offered to senior executives.
Free meals were a welcome perquisite of working at the restaurant.
A note on using this word
Perquisite is the formal source of the everyday shortened word perk, and it appears mainly in business or legal writing.
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