0 something that certain people are able or allowed to do or have, but is not possible or allowed for everyone:
1 a special advantage that allows some people the freedom to do or have something that is not possible or allowed for everyone:
It’s the president’s prerogative to nominate judges who share his political philosophy.
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.
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