| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pre·rog·a·tive |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pr -r g  -tv |
| NOUN: | 1. An exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group, especially a hereditary or official right. See synonyms at right. 2. The exclusive right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge: the principal's prerogative to suspend a student. 3. A special quality that confers superiority. | | ADJECTIVE: | Of, arising from, or exercising a prerogative. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praerog t va, feminine of praerogtvus, asked first, from praerogtus, past participle of praerogre, to ask before : prae-, pre- + rogre, to ask; see reg- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | pre·roga·tived —ADJECTIVE
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