How to Use perquisite in a Sentence
perquisite
noun- Use of the company's jet is a perquisite of the job.
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The parking perquisite has evolved into a point of pride.
—Melissa Korn, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
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To be sure, Mayorga’s civil case would have been strengthened by Ronaldo being charged, but a charge is a not perquisite to the case.
—Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 July 2019
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Hunter fils was also a military bro, enjoying the hell out of his status and the perquisites inherent in his office.
—Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
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The basic perquisites of a middle-class life, including a secure old age, are no longer attainable for most Americans.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
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Companies can offer it as a perquisite for employees or something an employee pays a few dollars for out of each paycheck.
—Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
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Instead, the legitimacy and perquisites conferred by U.N. membership might have helped the regime survive.
—Claudia Rosett, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
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The misuse of government travel and other perquisites of office has been a persistent theme of the Trump administration.
—Shane Harris, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
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Dividing up the funds of the Port Authority, which collects tolls at bridges and tunnels and fees and rents at the metropolitan area’s three major airports, has long been a perquisite of the governors of the two states.
—Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
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The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites, such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company’s plane.
—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
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As the job market tightens, many employers are creating more perquisites and positive work environments for workers.
—Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2017
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Yet even after these industrial and financial titans had begun to avail themselves of such perquisites, our heads of state maintained lingering reservations about priority treatment.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
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Other compensation typically includes benefits and perquisites.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 1 June 2016
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