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!
Ole Matt would look more macho, or Machu Picchu, without the little gold bracelet. BTW, I can't see him without picturing him with the bongos.
i cannot see that hook'em horns hand sign without remembering xsboy taunting the UT fans at the Final Four when SU beat their butts, LOL!
I would much prefer a boat to a helicopter...............
Also BTW, A+!
dang, i guess i better find some HW here, huh???
Even Dubya is getting jiggy with his "Hook 'em Horns" salute!
okay HE i can handle watching, doing just about ANYTHING : )
I'd never leave. Mas cerveza, por favor.
Most Peruvian beer - except for cerveza malta (black malt beer) - is bottled lager almost exclusively brewed to five percent, and extremely good. In Lima the two main beers are Cristal and Pilsen. Cuzqueña (from Cusco) is one of the best and by far the most popular at the moment, but not universally available; you won't find it on the coast in Trujillo, for example, where they drink Trujillana, nor are you likely to encounter it in every bar in Arequipa where, not surprisingly perhaps, they prefer to drink Arequipeña beer. You can usually buy Cuzqueña in Lima though.
It's a beautiful place. It's been nearly 40 years since I was there, but I still remember.
remember when my hub, the xenophobe, was trying to tell me this past summer that the Rockies were higher than the ANDES? RME!! IIRC SG provided me with a link that definitively shut him up!
Search engines are so handy. ;)
MOrning............
zealots can never distinguish.
ROFL!!!!
We spent the summer of 1968 there....my aunt lived and worked in LaPaz, Bolivia..2 days before we were to head back home bolivia had the worst blizzard they had had in more than 50 years. It was really cool - a blizzard in august!!!
Sex for visas: the Brazilian girls only had to smile and lean forward
I guess I went to bed 4 minutes (of game clock) too early.
There was a European newspaper (perhaps in Sweden) that carried that picture and they were freaked out that Bush would flash a satanic symbol. Those Euros are a wacky bunch.
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