perquisites

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Perquisites: Two houses each with 10 bedrooms; 18-hole golf course; 54-foot motorboat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perquisites & Privileges Things used to be far worse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Perquisites of Safeguards and Contributions, which in all Times have belong'd to Generals, can't easily be valued, they are according to the Countries in which the War is carried.

From A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh by Defoe, Daniel

Salaries, proposed to be increased to the Servants of the Crown, on the abolition of Perquisites, 282 Sartine, M. de, Minister of Police in Paris, two singular Anecdotes of, 525, 526, &c.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick

Perquisites, offices, forced loans were multiplied to such a point that a critic of the times, Guy Patin, facetiously declared that duties were to be exacted from the beggars basking in the sun.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various