perquisite

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I was listening to a Dutch group called Pete Philly & Perquisite.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2010

Dock-yards, on the Plunder and Peculation therein, 249-287 —— Fees to Officers one source of the Evil, 251 —— Frauds in receiving, detaining, and selling Stores, 253-259 —— The Perquisite of Chips, 256, 257, n.

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

The several Plates will be paid without any Deduction or Perquisite.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

Perquisite indeed! her folly was her fault; for you have seen that they were not worth the taking.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various

Perquisite, pėr′kwi-zit, n. an allowance granted over and above the settled wages: a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various