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- a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class特权; 独有的权力：
owning a motor car was still the prerogative of the rich.
拥有汽车仍是有钱人的特权。
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- （亦作royal prerogative）[mass noun] the right of the sovereign, which in British law is theoretically subject to no restriction君权; （英国法律赋予的）君主特权, 王室特权。
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- a faculty or property distinguishing a person or class特质, 特性, 特点：
it's not a female prerogative to feel insecure.
缺乏安全感并非女性专有。
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- Law, Brit.arising from the prerogative of the Crown (usually delegated to the government or the judiciary) and based in common law rather than statutory law【律】〈英〉（英王依据君主特权授予政府或司法机关的）特权的：
the monarch retained the formal prerogative power to appoint the Prime Minister.
君主在形式上保留了任命首相的特权。
词源
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin praerogativa '(the verdict of) the political division which was chosen to vote first in the assembly'， feminine (used as noun) of praerogativus 'asked first'， from prae 'before'+rogare 'ask'.