Posted on 01/05/2006 5:17:29 AM PST by secret garden
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
perquisite \PUR-kwuh-zit\, noun
1. A profit or benefit in addition to a salary or wages.
2. Broadly: The benefits of a position or office.
3. A gratuity or tip for services performed.
4. Anything to which someone has or claims the sole right.
Example sentence:
In a tight market for skilled labor... corporations are increasingly buying homes for hot new hires -- a perquisite once reserved for top executives.
--Jennie James, "For Many Europeans, There's No Place Like Home," Time, May 8, 2000
Etymology: Perquisite derives from Medieval Latin perquisitum, from the past participle of Latin perquirere, "to search for eagerly," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + quaerere, "to seek." In Middle English it meant "property acquired by means other than inheritance." By 1565 it had acquired the sense "fringe benefit"; by 1721 it had also come to signify "a tip or gratuity."
Synonyms: benefit, fringe benefit, gravy, perk, reward.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
You've got to be kidding! You missed one of the greatest comeback performances of all time. Vince Young showed the Heisman committee that they made a mistake last month.
With all the USC hype, i wrongly figured it was all over. They weresaying how deflated T was and USC was on the march.
I am not a big football fan, but what I saw was a good game.
Damn, and last year, they said the Red Sox were doomed when the Yankees were up 3 games in the best of seven series.
No doubt CBS will give many extravagant perquisitesthat looks like something peeking out from a sewer drain in a Stephen King novel....
I already saw that. It's not Chappaquidick Fats.
yeah i know, but it was fun to think of him coming clean, stripping to the bare, as it were...
Please, I just ate lunch and I'd like to keep it.
be nice or i will look for that offshore drilling pic....
oh now isn't THAT attractive, LMAO!!
So that's what happened to Madonna's brazierre...
I thought that was hilarious!!!!!
While I agree in principle with that assessment of the game, in the end I have to say "screw the Blue State".
Wonderful poetry ti. A+ for you!
Wow, those are some meaty upper arms. A+ Mike!
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