perquisites
Example Sentences
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Instead, the Russian authorities have been luring people to enlist by offering them hefty cash incentives and other perquisites.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Set in the fictional Kershaw University — described in a Times review as “only 200 years younger than Harvard” — the novel skewered the academic world, its denizens and their perquisites.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020
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
Yet since both drugs were aimed at small or under-served populations, the FDA rewarded their manufacturers with valuable perquisites.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2018
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
