prerogative

[Pre*rog·a*tive]

A prerogative is someone's special right or privilege. As Bobby Brown once sang, "I don't need permission Make my own decisions That's my prerogative."

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An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.

Noun
a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"

n.
An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.

n.
Precedence; preeminence; first rank.

Prerogative

Pre*rog"a*tive , n. [F. pr'82rogative, from L. praerogativa precedence in voting, preference, privilege, fr. praerogativus that is asked before others for his opinion, that votes before or first, fr. praerogare to ask before another; prae before + rogare to ask. See Rogation.] 1. An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.

The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination.

An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative.

2. Precedence; pre'89minence; first rank. [Obs.]

Then give me leave to have prerogative.

&hand; The term came into general use in the conflicts between the Crown and Parliaments of Great Britain, especially in the time of the Stuarts. Prerogative Court (Eng. Law), a court which formerly had authority in the matter of wills and administrations, where the deceased left bona notabilia, or effects of the value of five pounds, in two or more different dioceses. Blackstone. -- Prerogative office, the office in which wills proved in the Prerogative Court were registered. Syn. -- Privilege; right. See Privilege.

An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.

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Usage Examples

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

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Other Usage Examples

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.