(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was and am very grateful – indeed I gave him very nearly a pound in gratuity.
(2) By transforming the provision of medical care in this way, the giving and accepting of gratuities for doctors could be terminated, not only in law but also in the economy.
(3) Although CBAP is not a true gratuitous inducer, operationally it approaches gratuity for induction of B. licheniformis penicillinase better than other known inducers.
(4) The induction studied under conditions of gratuity with the latter compound as an inducer showed immediate linear kinetics only at saturating inducer concentrations.
(5) He may have won some votes by stating: "I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP's gratuity bonus."
(6) A local guide would take us there and we could give him a gratuity if we wished.
(7) The habit of giving a gratuity became so frequent at the end of the 1950's that counter-measures were enacted.
(8) But the Pentagon said it cannot grant these families a "death gratuity" to cover the burial and other expenses as long as the budget impasse continues.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) When 4 mM Ca2+ is added gratuitiously in the reaction mixture synthesizing prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from arachidonic acid and cofactors by membrane associated microsomal multienzyme system (MES) prepared from goat seminal vesicles, one observes an immediate lag in the production of PGE2.
(11) The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a “gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg” (Frank Lautenberg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June ) to “authority for activities to counter Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda.
(12) Although granting and accepting gratuities is forbidden by law, the wages of doctors have been fixed since 1954, for so long that accepting gratuities has come to be considered part of the wages, even in semi-official comments and in the media.
Perquisite
Definition:
(n.) Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
(n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multicellular tumor spheroids (MTS) provide a closer in vitro correlate to in vivo malignancy than do conventional monolayer cultures; while simulating many parameters of in vivo growth, MTS systems provide those perquisites (i.e., experimental control, economy, expediency) associated with in vitro evaluation of preclinical therapeutic strategies.
(2) Persons insured in Group 2, on payment of a premium, obtain certain perquisites as compared with Group 1, primarily they may consult general practitioners and specialists of their own choice.