per·qui·site /ˈpɝkwəzət/
額外補貼,臨時津貼
Per·qui·site n.
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.
The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. --Prescott.
The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. --Addison.
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.
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perquisite
n 1: 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, perk]
2: 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, exclusive right]