PREROGATIVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of prerogative in English

(Definition of prerogative from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of prerogative from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of prerogative

prerogative
It was the statistics office that assumed the prerogative of selection.
These were the areas, he argued, in which the struggle between the royal prerogative and ' constitutional forces ' - as he defined ' politics ' - took place.
The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
The act of conceding such benefits took on the institutional form of privilege, by virtue of which the beneficiary enjoyed a series of special prerogatives.
As long as markets could be defined for all activity, failure remained the sole prerogative of nonconvexity.
Central bankers now viewed political pressure as unwarranted interference into the central bank's legal and moral prerogative to conduct independent monetary policy.
The speech ideally mixes gloom and worry with hope and resolution by asserting the executive's legislative prerogatives.
The emergence of this system had rendered most of the monarch's formal prerogatives obsolete.
Compliance with the formal rules is unlikely and irrational when judges are punished for attempting to limit the prerogatives of the president.
The repeated resort to the so-called decrees of ' urgency and need ' represent a clear invasion of legislative prerogatives by the executive.
The general pardons which invariably accompanied royal successions underscored mercy as a prerogative of power.
In fact, it may be the prerogative of a ' think piece ' to provide precisely that.
For, if true, it indicates that the power to make critical allocative decisions was not, as most scholars assume, a prerogative of the state.
Their disagreements are reflected in the extent to which they have resorted to their national prerogative to request additional national regulatory requirements.
The defence of royal prerogative in matters ecclesiastical had a long high church lineage.
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Translations of prerogative

in Chinese (Traditional)
獨有的權利(或權力),特權…
in Chinese (Simplified)
独有的权利(或权力),特权…
in Spanish
prerrogativa, derecho…
in Portuguese
prerrogativa, direito…
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in Russian
ayrıcalık, imtiyaz, yetki…
prérogative…
voorrecht…
výsada…
privilegium…
hak istimewa…
สิทธิพิเศษ…
đặc quyền…
przywilej, prerogatywa…
prerogativ, privilegium…
prerogatif…
das Privilegium…
særrett, forrett…
прерогатива, привілей…
прерогатива…
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