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noun
1.
an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
2.
a right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category: It was the teacher's prerogative to stop the discussion.
3.
a power, immunity, or the like restricted to a sovereign government or its representative: The royal prerogative exempts the king from taxation.
4.
Obsolete. precedence.
adjective
5.
having or exercising a prerogative.
6.
pertaining to, characteristic of, or existing by virtue of a prerogative.
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Prerogative
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin praerogātīvus (adj.) voting first, praerogātīva (noun use of feminine of adj.) tribe or century with right to vote first. See pre-, interrogative
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin praerogātīvus (adj.) voting first, praerogātīva (noun use of feminine of adj.) tribe or century with right to vote first. See pre-, interrogative
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Example Sentences
- She may not be interested in being friends, but that's her prerogative.
- It's a wonderful idea, true to Goethe but true also to the director's prerogative of imaginatively investing a text with life.
- It is my prerogative (and yours, and everyone's) to name myself.
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Word Origin & History
prerogative
late 14c. (in Anglo-L. from late 13c.), from O.Fr. prerogative (14c.), M.L. prerogativa "special right," from L. prærogativa "prerogative, previous choice or election," originally (with tribus, centuria) "unit of 100 voters who by lot voted first in the Roman comita," prop. fem. of prærogativus
EXPAND(adj.) "chosen to vote first," from prærogere "ask before others," from præ- "before" + rogare "to ask" (see rogation).
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