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Definition: Prerogative |
PrerogativeNoun1. A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prerogative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PrerogativeSynonyms: exclusive right (n), perquisite (n), privilege (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Noun: authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right; (title); direction; government; a. |
Dueness | Noun: due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity, license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prerogative |
| English words defined with "prerogative": Coshering ♦ Esnecy, exclusive right ♦ perquisite, Preemption, Prerogative office, Prerogatived, Prerogatively, privilege, prorogue ♦ Regalism ♦ Seguestration ♦ Writ of privilege. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prerogative": concession system ♦ regalian doctrine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prerogative": Prerogatived. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Man's Prerogative (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Portrait of Pearl Bailey, takes a call after singing A Woman's Prerogative in St. Louis Woman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johnson | To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the greatest prerogative of innocence; and exemption granted only to invariable virtue. |
Senator John James Ingalls | In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. |
Thomas p Kempis | Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | If men were so void of reason, and brutish, as to enter into society upon such terms, prerogative might indeed be, what some men would have it, an arbitrary power to do things hurtful to the people. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The scope of practice allowed under these State requirements varies as well. While States have the individual prerogative to set standards for licensing professions, consistency in these areas will provide greater confidence in the qualifications of acupuncture practitioners. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | The level of control exerted over NLD members appears to be the prerogative of the local area commander or township authorities. (references) |
Economic History | Jordan | It remains a customs officer's prerogative to reject an exporter's invoice price, which could result in fines or a higher assessed value. (references) |
Guatemala | In the past, the Central Bank had the legal authority to impose restrictions on remittances and on several occasions asserted this prerogative. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | The Fast Track Courts are authorized to hear cases involving banks and investors, human rights, electoral petitions, government revenue, prerogative writs, defamation, specified commercial and industrial cases, and criminal cases involving substantial public money or are a matter of extreme public importance. (references) |
Uganda | Bright Gabula Africa, whose death sentence for treason (plotting an armed coup) was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1995, remained imprisoned pending the outcome of his appeal to the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, a largely autonomous constitutional body that recommends whether presidential clemency powers should be exercised in a given case. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | Generally, local governments have little or no influence on the local business climate as the majority of fiscal, economic and other policies are still the prerogative of the Central Government. (references) |
Political Rights | Belarus | It also gave the President the prerogative to decide on the validity of referendum results. (references) |
Samoa | While all citizens above the age of 21 may vote, the right to run for 47 of the 49 seats in the Legislative Assembly remains the prerogative of the approximately 25,000 matai, 95 percent of whom are men. (references) | |
Women | Uganda | Law enforcement officials, reflecting general public opinion, continued to view wife beating as a husband's prerogative and rarely intervened in cases of domestic violence. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritius | The IRA grants the Prime Minister the prerogative to declare any strike illegal if he considers that it "imperils the economy." In July the Government unveiled a plan for restructuring the sugar sector that included provisions for the early retirement of 9,200 sugar workers. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We must be staunch in our conviction that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings. |
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| "Prerogative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.33% of the time. "Prerogative" is used about 300 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.33% | 283 | 17,340 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 300 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "prerogative": prerogative Court ♦ prerogative office ♦ prerogative right. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prerogative | 24 |
jewelry prerogative | 7 |
lyrics prerogative | 2 |
prerogative royal | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "prerogative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prerogativë (perquisite, privilege), që ka një privilegj, e drejtë e posaçme (charter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حق مقصور لشخص, حق (due, right, truth), تفوق مميز, سلطة (arm, chicory, command, hold, horn, influence, law, power, rule, seigniory), إمتياز (charter, concession, distinction, excellence, franchise, lien, note, patent, privilege, splendor, splendour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прерогативен, прерогатив (perquisite), привилегия (franchise, incident, indulgence, perquisite, preference, privilege, pull, right), изключително право (exclusive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 特权 (franchise, Franchised, Franchising, Privilege), 特權 (privilege, privileged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | privilegium (privilege), výsada (franchise, patent, privilege), neodvolatelné právo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حق ویژه (Privilege), حق ارثی , امتیازمخصوص , امتیاز (Charter, Concession, Grant, Precedence, Privilege, Prominence, Upperhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | etuoikeus (priority, privilege, right of precedence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prérogative (privilege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorrecht (freedom, precedence, privilege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προνόμιο (franchise, privilege, privilege for). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זכות מיוח"ת (peculiar, perquisite), זכות (acquittal, advantage, credit, equity, favour, merit, privilege, right, vantage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiváltság (exemption, franchise, lien, privilege), előjog (franchise, privilege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | hak istimewa (privilege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prerogativa (privelege, privilege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kiart (accurate, concession, correct, due, exact, just, level, orthodox, precise, proper, pukka, right, thorough-paced, title, true, true real, undeviating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erogativepray privilegiado (chartered, gifted, preference, preferential, privileged), privilégio (appurtenance, charter, concession, franchise, liberty, perk, perquisite, privelege, privilege, right), prerrogativa (attribution, privelege, privilege, right), regalia (freedom, privelege, privilege), direito especial (privelege, privilege). (various references) privilegiu (advantage, charter, Favor, favour, franchise, freedom, incident, indulgence, licence, patent, priority, privilege, right), prerogativã, care se bucurã de prerogative. (various references) обладающий прерогативой. (various references) prvenstvo (antecedents, anteriority, championship, pas, precedence, preference, primacy, priority), prvenstven, povlastica (privilege), povlašćen (preferential, privileged). (various references) prerrogativa (privelege, privilege). (various references) privilegium (charter, franchise, freedom, indulgence, privilege), förmånsrätt. (various references) yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, quality, skill, talent, vocation), kabiliyet (accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, dower, faculty, flair, gift, instinct, quality, skill, talent, vocation), imtiyazlı (granted, licensed, preferential, privileged), imtiyaz (concession, faculty, franchise, grant, privilege, royalty), ayrıcalıklı (at liberty, concessionairy, exclusive, favored, favoured, immune, inner, preferential, privileged, special), ayrıcalık (benefit, cachet, charter, concession, concessionairy, eligibility, faculty, Favor, favour, franchise, immunity, incident, oracle, peculiar, privilege, refusal, royalty, speciality). (various references) прерогативний, прерогатива, привілей (charter, exemption, franchise, indulgence, patent, perquisite, privilege). (various references) có đặc quyền, đặc quyền (privilege), được hưởng đặc quyền. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | prerogativa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prerogative": prerogatived, prerogatives. (additional references) | |
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"Prerogative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parrogative, pererogative, perogative, perojative, perorative, perrogative, pregorative, preogative, preorgative, preregative, prerogativbe, prerogerative, prerogstive, prerrogative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prerogative" (pronounced prirÄ"gutiv or per"Ä"gutiv) |
| 5 | -g u t i v | negative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
| 5 | -g u t i v | negative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-o-p-r-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: evaporite, operative, porterage, privateer, reportage. | |
-3 letters: ergative, overgirt, overpert, overrate, overripe, overtire, perorate, portiere, priorate, privater, progeria, ravigote. | |
-4 letters: airport, evertor, garrote, grapier, greater, griever, operate, overage, overapt, overate, overeat, overtip, partier, pearter, peatier, pervert, pierrot, portage, praetor, preaver, preriot, private, prorate, protege, regrate, reprove, riveter, taperer, tearier, vaporer, vertigo, virgate. | |
-5 letters: aerier, aigret. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-o-p-r-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: prerogatived, prerogatives. | |
+2 letters: overoperating. | |
+4 letters: antiprogressive. | |
+5 letters: ultraprogressive. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110010 01101111 01100111 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e r o g a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0072 006F 0067 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718481736786758871 |
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