'Perquisite' definitions:
Definition of 'perquisite'
From: WordNet
noun
An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job" [syn: fringe benefit, perquisite, perk]
noun
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right]
Definition of 'Perquisite'
From: GCIDE
- Perquisite \Per"qui*site\, n. [L. perquisitum, fr. perquisitus, p. p. of perquirere to ask for diligently; per + quaerere to seek. See Per-, and Quest.]
- 1. Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; -- examples are, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service; the use of a company automobile or other company property.
- Syn: perk. [1913 Webster + PJC]
- The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (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. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'perquisite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessories,
- appanages,
- appendages,
- appointments,
- appurtenances,
- belongings,
- blackmail,
- bonus,
- bonus system,
- boodle,
- booty,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- capital gains,
- choses,
- choses in action,
- choses in possession,
- choses local,
- choses transitory,
- cleanup,
- clear profit,
- consideration,
- dividends,
- donative,
- double time,
- earnings,
- fee,
- filthy lucre,
- fringe benefit,
- gain,
- gains,
- get,
- gettings,
- gleanings,
- graft,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- gross,
- gross profit,
- haul,
- hoard,
- honorarium,
- hot goods,
- incentive pay,
- income,
- inducement,
- interest,
- killing,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- liberality,
- loot,
- lucre,
- makings,
- material things,
- movables,
- neat profit,
- net,
- net profit,
- overtime pay,
- palm oil,
- paper profits,
- paraphernalia,
- pelf,
- percentage,
- perk,
- perks,
- perquisites,
- personal effects,
- pickings,
- plunder,
- pork barrel,
- pourboire,
- premium,
- prize,
- proceeds,
- profit,
- profits,
- public till,
- public trough,
- rake-off,
- receipts,
- return,
- returns,
- salve,
- solatium,
- something extra,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- sportula,
- squeeze,
- stealings,
- stolen goods,
- store,
- swag,
- sweetener,
- take,
- take-in,
- things,
- till,
- tip,
- trappings,
- Trinkgeld,
- wealth,
- winnings