Crossword-Solution: PERQUISITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perquisite | n. | Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service. |
| Perquisite | n. | Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PERQUISITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bonus or fringe benefit | 1 answer |
| Extra income | 1 answer |
| fringe benefit | 7 answers |
| appanage | 8 answers |
| gleanings | 9 answers |
| Lagniappe | 11 answers |
| Perk | 13 answers |
| Largesse | 21 answers |
| dependency | 28 answers |
| Gratuity | 35 answers |
| Earnings | 37 answers |
| Income | 47 answers |
| Fee | 54 answers |
| Bonus | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERQUISITE (5)
The evening before, Edward, in a fit of unwonted amiability, had deigned to carve me out a turnip lantern, an art-and-craft he was peculiarly deft in; and Harold, as the interior of the turnip flew out in scented fragments under the hollowing knife, had eaten largely thereof: regarding all such jetsam as his special perquisite.
Men began to pride themselves on having nothing to do with their own government, and to agree tacitly with those who regarded public office as a private perquisite.
Forty-seven gaming houses at Paris, which had been licensed, and from which several magistrates drew a perquisite of a pistole or half a sovereign a day, were shut up and suppressed.
The wife of Le Mamea washed for the German ships--a perquisite, I suppose, for her husband's unwilling fidelity.
Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable, primarily as a mark of prowess and a perquisite of human dignity; secondarily it becomes substantially honourable to itself, especially the consumption of the more desirable things.
Quotes with PERQUISITE (1)
The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Therefore the base classes, primarily the women, practice an enforced continence with respect to these stimulants, except in countries where they are obtainable at a very low cost. From archaic times down through all the length of the patriarchal regime it has been the office of the…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–1982).