noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congress has the prerogative to raise taxes.
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If you want to leave early, that's your prerogative .
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In the old days, a university education was the prerogative of the rich.
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The governor has the prerogative to free prisoners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, he has the confidence to let me know when I use my maternal prerogative to automatically overrule him.
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But, in general, the articulation of the conventional wisdom is a prerogative of academic, public or business position.
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Privileges and prerogatives are revoked; the iron hand of supervisory control is brought to bear.
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Secondly, some forms of work design - autonomous group work in particular - appear to threaten traditional managerial decision-making prerogatives.
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So lofty were these papal prerogatives, that no further Council would ever be needed, or so it seemed to many.
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The dependence of the Reich Chancellor on coalition support sharply restricted his prerogatives.
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The drying up of this reservoir, no less than the loss of wealth itself can rob wealth of its prerogatives.