perquisites
Example Sentences
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It was likely that organizing would come for Starbucks, despite the company’s perquisites, such as tuition aid at Arizona State University, one of my alma maters.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 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
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
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
