perquisites

Example Sentences

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Littleness is everywhere evident among those who grab the headlines, demand recognition and deference and seek the perquisites and privileges of power by promising grandiosity in place of greatness.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

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

Jefferies, another investment bank, even offered Peloton bikes, Apple Watches and other perquisites to thank more than 1,100 of its analysts and associates — the next rank up — for working hard during the pandemic.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2021

Somehow, Gronk kept things Gronky while assimilating into Belichick’s hive, taking full advantage of the perquisites of stardom yet maintaining his focus on game days.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2020

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