Prerogative

Noun

 * 1) A hereditary or official right or privilege.
 * 2) A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
 * 3) A right, generally
 * Your best life now: 7 steps to living at your full potential by Joel Osteen - Religion - 2004 - 310 pages Page 92 If you want to wear your hair a certain way, that's your prerogative. You don't have to check with all your friends to make sure it's okay. ...
 * Secrets Of The Baby Whisperer: How To Calm, Connect, And Communicate With ...  by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau - Family & Relationships - 2005 - 327 pages Page 56 If you choose another approach — that's your prerogative. But the problem is that parents often don't realize they're making the choice — they get into what ...'
 * The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson - Fiction - 2002 - 512 pages Page 48 "Ah, that's your prerogative as an Intelligence officer, Jimmy. But it's been your prerogative for weeks, months, and nothing has happened, as I told you it ...
 * 1) A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.

Adjective

 * 1) Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.

Thesaurus
absolute power, absolutism, accomplishment, advantage, appanage, appurtenance, ascendancy, authority, authorization, birthright, claim, competence, competency, conjugal right, constituted authority, deanship, delegated authority, demand, divine right, droit, due, excellence, exemption, faculty, favor, franchise, greatness, immunity, inalienable right, incomparability, indirect authority, inherent authority, inimitability, interest, jus divinum, lawful authority, lead, legal authority, legitimacy, liberty, majority, natural right, one-upmanship, perquisite, power, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prescription, prestige, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, priority, privilege, proper claim, property right, regality, right, right-of-way, rightful authority, royal prerogative, sanction, seniority, skill, success, superiority, the say, the say-so, title, transcendence, transcendency, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority, virtuosity

Etymology
From the noun prerogative:, from  praerogativa:, noun use of the feminine singular of praerogativus:.

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * Italian: privilegio, prerogativa
 * Portuguese:


 * Scottish Gaelic: còir-dhlighe
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: valtaoikeus
 * French:
 * Italian: appannaggio, prerogativa, diritto


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * Finnish: etuoikeutettu
 * German: Vorrecht


 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  right or privilege

Etymology
praerogativa:

Noun
prerogative



Anagrams

 * riporgevate