Usually means: Special right or privilege granted.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word prerogative:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prerogative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prerogative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prerogative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prerogative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prerogative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prerogative, prerogative: Wordnik
  7. prerogative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prerogative: Wiktionary
  9. prerogative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prerogative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prerogative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prerogative, prerogative: Dictionary.com
  13. prerogative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prerogative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prerogative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prerogative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prerogative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prerogative: Rhymezone
  19. prerogative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prerogative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prerogative: Free Dictionary
  22. prerogative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prerogative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. prerogative: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prerogative: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prerogative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prerogatived as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An exclusive hereditary or official right or privilege.
noun:  A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
noun:  A right, especially when due to one's position or role.
noun:  A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.
adjective:  Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.
adjective:  Characterized by lawless state actions, as in a prerogative state.

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