perquisites
Example Sentences
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Are American employees these days more demanding of personal perquisites, less engaged with others at work and less loyal to the enterprises that pay them than they once were?
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023
Apparently convinced of the virtues of modesty, he never seemed to accustom himself to the perquisites of fame and high office.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2021
Williams, 66, who was president from 2014 to 2018, is a former welder and by most accounts a committed progressive but also a man susceptible to the perquisites of power.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2019
Among the perquisites of youth is blissful ignorance.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2019
However, whereas the lineages of tribal villages are equal-ranked clans, in a chiefdom all members of the chief’s lineage had hereditary perquisites.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
