Which should you use, perquisite or prerequisite? The noun perquisite means a perk you get from your job. The noun prerequisite means something that must exist or happen before something else is possible. Prerequisite takes the preposition of.
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We expect our leaders to take responsibility as one of the perquisites of the job.
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We expect our leaders to take responsibility as one of the prerequisites of the job.
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