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perquisite🔊

Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.

A gratuity.

💬 Quotations
One voyage, I recollect, I tipped him a live sheep out of the remnant of my sea-stock: not that I wanted him to do anything for me—he couldn’t, you know—but because his childlike belief in the sacred right to perquisites quite touched my heart.

A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.

💬 Quotations
Why is progress a perquisite reserved almost exclusively for the activities we call science?
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