Perquisite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERQUISITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages
• a thing which has served its primary use and to which a subordinate or employee has a customary right.
• 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.
• Things gotten by a man\'s own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.
• an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
• a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
• a benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one's job or position
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages; one expected or promised

Words related to PERQUISITE

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Words that contain PERQUISITE

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How to use PERQUISITE in a sentence

• These are renewed every evening, and whatever the goddess may leave is the perquisite of the bonzes.
• When the cremation is complete the charred sticks are picked up by the beggars and other poor people who are always hanging around and claim this waste as their perquisite.
• One is apt to arrive in Havana with a heart elated by the prospect of such kindnesses and hospitalities as are poetically supposed to be the perquisite of travellers.
• There she bravely gave herself up to a form of industry little known and the perquisite of a few persons, which she obtained, thanks to the patrons of her father.
• This was, however, a perquisite and one of the tolerated pleasures of old age.
• The opium thus collected is the perquisite of the Temple priests, and at the gate of the Temple there is a stall for the sale of opium fittings.
• In the London Zoological Gardens the collection of the perfume, which is rubbed off against the walls of the cage, is a valued perquisite of the keeper.
• The former claimed the horns as his perquisite, as he had performed the office of butcher, and Johnson disputed the claim.
• Meanwhile the money accumulated in his hands, and its profits were his legitimate perquisite.
• Our interpreter, Wu, took the heart as his perquisite, carefully extracted the blood, and dried it in a basin.
• The sum collected is at present the perquisite of M.

Similar words containing PERQUIS without suffix ite

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