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A perquisite is a perk: something extra you get from a job besides the pay, often because of the position itself. A company car, a free lunch, tickets, a nicer office — those can be perquisites. The word is formal and a bit old-fashioned; almost everyone now says perk. You still meet perquisite in contracts, history books, and slightly stiff writing. Older English also used it for extras a worker could claim by custom, leftover cloth or tips, which is why the idea feels like "something that comes along with the post," not a gift from a friend.
額外福利、職務附帶的好處（口語幾乎都說 perk 或「福利」）
組成Borrowed from Medieval Latin perquīsītum, "something acquired for profit."
同家族的字
- perkthe short everyday form of this same word
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
perquisitenoun/ˈpɜːkwɪzɪt/
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Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
- The perquisites of this job include health insurance and a performance bonus.
- The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors. Thus levitical and priestly perquisites are gifts from God.
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A gratuity.
- After the wonderful service that evening he didn’t hesitate in laying a substantial perquisite on the table.
- 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.
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A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.
- Private jets and motor yachts are perquisites of the rich.
- Why is progress a perquisite reserved almost exclusively for the activities we call science?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。