The word "perquisite" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means a benefit or privilege (usually in the form of money) that comes in addition to salary or other compensation. For example: "The company offers its executives a generous package of salary and perquisites."
They also serve as an executive perquisite and as a sophisticated inducement for potential customers.
Although companies were loath to admit it, most executive jets were initially purchased as a perquisite of the top management, usually for a chief executive officer who liked to fly and found the executive jet's performance comparable to that of airliners.
But because this principle could not be practically applied to the subordinate levels of administration, there developed the "spoils system," in which public office became a perquisite of political victory, being widely used to reward political support.
The electors had voted for Wenceslas reluctantly during Charles IV's reign, fearful that the monarchy might become a perquisite of the house of Luxembourg.
Comment about a proposed Citizens Lobbyy, which would be a way of putting the running of the country back into the hands of the people--while taking every care that party chiefs, elected representatives, & appointed officials shall not lose a single perquisite to which they are comfortably accustomed.
Then they positioned themselves as reformers, overturning primogeniture and the treizième, an archaic perquisite that, until 2007, entitled the Seigneur to an eight-per-cent cut of any real-estate transaction.
The room, with its high ceilings and its view of the East Capitol, is the sort of perquisite that signals status in the hierarchical culture of the U.S. Senate.
The interloper evidently must bargain for services that used to be her perquisite.
It has been a staple of recent Cups and a major perquisite for sponsors as one of the rare examples in elite sports of a spectator being able to watch a competitive race from the inside.
PRORA, Germany — Three years before the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler's lieutenants ordered the construction of what was portrayed as a remarkable perquisite for the toiling masses of the Third Reich — a vacation complex along the Baltic coast with 10,000 sea-view rooms in eight identical six-story blocks of steel-reinforced concrete, each one the length of five football fields.
But over the past eight years, Mr. Kelly, who has an advanced degree from Harvard, has enjoyed an additional perquisite: some or all of his expenses at the club, including the yearly dues, drinks and meals, have been paid by the New York City Police Foundation, a spokesman for Mr. Kelly acknowledged on Monday.
