How to Use perquisite in a Sentence

perquisite

noun
  • Use of the company's jet is a perquisite of the job.
  • Casual swearing is a great perquisite of adulthood, and one of the first that kids attempt to seize for themselves.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
  • Being part of Braddock’s family came with perquisites.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Hunter fils was also a military bro, enjoying the hell out of his status and the perquisites inherent in his office.
    — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Companies can offer it as a perquisite for employees or something an employee pays a few dollars for out of each paycheck.
    — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
  • To be sure, Mayorga’s civil case would have been strengthened by Ronaldo being charged, but a charge is a not perquisite to the case.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 July 2019
  • The basic perquisites of a middle-class life, including a secure old age, are no longer attainable for most Americans.
    — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
  • As the job market tightens, many employers are creating more perquisites and positive work environments for workers.
    — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2017
  • To become European champions, a team needs all the perquisites — ability, depth and money — but must possess perfect timing, too.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • The air travel is part of what are known as perquisites, or perks granted the executives, which also include ground transportation, lodging and meals during personal travel.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Such blatant grabs by the state send a clear signal to those who are tempted to think that the perquisites of Russian elite status—money and businesses—belong exclusively to them.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Employees that survived the layoffs were sad that their friends were no longer at the company, and that the perquisites — the little extras that made work fun — were reduced, multiple current and former workers said.
    — Aisha Counts, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The pay package would also include nearly $538 million in equity and $44 million in perquisites and benefits.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That’s equity valued at $517 million, $34 million in in cash severance and perquisites worth $44 million.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Yet even after these industrial and financial titans had begun to avail themselves of such perquisites, our heads of state maintained lingering reservations about priority treatment.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Dividing up the funds of the Port Authority, which collects tolls at bridges and tunnels and fees and rents at the metropolitan area’s three major airports, has long been a perquisite of the governors of the two states.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Those periods were followed by regulatory changes that fueled more specific perquisite and pay disclosures by companies, and the advent of shareholder say-on-pay votes on executive comp programs.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites, such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company’s plane.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • For compensation purposes, security detail is considered a personal benefit for executives and is reportable as a perquisite.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Other compensation typically includes benefits and perquisites.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 1 June 2016
  • Barber characterized the shift as a significant reversal from the cost-cutting approach that has dominated executive benefits and perquisites since the early 2000s and the 2008 financial crisis.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025

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