noun
A payment, advantage, benefit, or privilege received beyond regular income or salary; something claimed as an exclusive right.
Note: The expression “perk” comes from perquisite.
Assassination is the perquisite of princes.
—A nineteenth-century cliché in European courts
Grammar.com’s section on Problem Words discusses perquisite and prerequisite. Click here for that discussion.
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