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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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