Crossword clues for perk
perk
- Businessperson's bonus
- Businessman's bonus
- Business benefit
- Become lively
- Workplace benefit
- Worker's benefit
- Work bonus that rhymes with "work"
- Work benefit (h)
- Work benefit
- Unlimited expense account, e.g
- Telecommuting opportunities, e.g
- Suddenly look interested, with "up"
- Stock options, e.g
- Special privilege
- Smarten, with "up"
- Salaried worker's extra
- Reserved parking space, e.g
- Recruiter's incentive
- Private jet, e.g
- Private health club, perhaps
- Personalized parking slot, perhaps
- Office with a view, maybe
- Office privilege
- Negotiated extra
- Make the coffee
- Make java, for short
- Make coffee, in a way
- Liven, with "up"
- Jobholder's privilege
- Job frill
- Incidental benefit from one's employment
- Hiring enticement
- Half-day Fridays, e.g
- Gym membership, perhaps
- Gym membership, e.g
- Fringe benefit such as a company car
- Free lunch, perhaps
- Free lunch at the office, e.g
- Free haircuts, e.g., at Google
- Free food, for Google staffers
- Extra benefit for an employee
- Executive's cherry on top
- Executive's bonus
- Executive washroom access, say
- Exec's private jet, say
- Exec's freebie
- Exec's car, say
- Exec. privilege
- Employment enticement
- Employment bonus
- Employee's reserved parking space, for one
- Employee discount, for one
- Country club membership, maybe
- Corporate exec's freebie
- Contract extra
- Company car, say
- Company car, for one
- Company benefit for an executive
- Club membership, maybe
- Cheer with up
- Central __: "Friends" coffee house
- Central ___ (coffeeshop on "Friends")
- Central ___ ("Friends" hangout)
- Biz benefit
- Bigwig's benefit
- Benefit of the job
- Benefit of employment
- Benefit at work
- Become more attentive, with "up"
- Added benefit
- Ability to telecommute, e.g
- Become more cheerful
- Become more lively
- Took heart from freebie given to European political party
- Brew coffee
- Enliven, with "up"
- Become attentive, with "up"
- Make 1-Down, e.g.
- Job benefit, for short
- Dental plan, maybe
- Brighten, with "up"
- Executive extra
- Fringe benefit, for short
- Lift (up)
- Extra for an exec
- Bonus at the office
- Use of a company car or private washroom, say
- Liven (up)
- Benefit from work
- Free gym membership, e.g.
- Become lively, with "up"
- Free use of a company car, say
- Executive's extra benefit
- Use of a company car, e.g.
- Reserved parking space for an exec, maybe
- Employee discount, e.g.
- Use of a corporate jet, say
- Company car, maybe
- Private jet, e.g.
- Corner office, e.g.
- Brighten (up)
- Private jet, maybe
- Corner office, maybe
- An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
- Company car or key to the executive bathroom
- Prink
- Company car, e.g.
- Freshen, with "up"
- Boil, as java
- ___ up (come alive)
- Make coffee, maybe
- Fringe benefit of a sort
- Freebie's cousin
- ___ up (freshen)
- Brew, as coffee
- Freshen (up)
- Regain one's spirits, with "up"
- Make coffee an extra benefit
- Advantage of a copper kettle
- Added incentive
- A thousand extra at work
- Bonus for each £1000?
- In proper kit — a benefit from work
- Three men inject drug for benefit
- Biz bonus
- Exec's extra
- Company car, e.g
- Job extra
- Company car, for example
- Exec's benefit
- Country club membership, perhaps
- Corporate freebie
- Cheer (up)
- Central ___ ("Friends" coffee shop)
- Brew, in a way
- Make some joe
- Executive's extra
- Use of a company jet, e.g
- Perquisite, for short
- On-the-job extra
- On-site day care, perhaps
- Job offer sweetener
- Free dental plan, e.g
- Employee's benefit
- Employee extra
- Corporate benefit
- Corner office, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perk \Perk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Perking.] [Cf. W. percu to trim, to make smart.]
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a
jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up
one's head.
--Cowper. Sherburne.
Perk \Perk\, v. i.
To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily. ``To perk
over them.''
--Barrow.
To perk it, to carry one's self proudly or saucily.
--Pope.
Perk \Perk\, a.
Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. ``Perk as a peacock.''
--Spenser.
Perk \Perk\, v. i.
To peer; to look inquisitively.
--Dickens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to make oneself trim or smart," perhaps from Old North French perquer "to perch" (Modern French percher; see perch (n.1)), on notion of a bird preening its plumage. Sense of "raise oneself briskly" is first attested 1520s; perk up "recover liveliness" is from 1650s. Related: Perked; perking.
1869, shortened and altered form of perquisite (q.v.); as a verb, 1934 as shortened and altered form of percolate.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (cx informal English) perquisite. n. (cx informal English) perquisite. Etymology 2
n. A percolator, particularly of coffee. vb. Shortened form of percolate. Etymology 3
smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain v
1 To become more lively or enthusiasti
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2 To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily. 3 To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. Etymology 4
vb. (context dated English) To peer; to look inquisitively.
WordNet
n. an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job" [syn: fringe benefit, perquisite]
v. gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" [syn: perk up, percolate, pick up, gain vigor]
Wikipedia
Perk may refer to:
Usage examples of "perk".
At that very moment the water that was boiling in the coffee percolator made a loud perking sound.
With a whirring of strained servomotors, domed, rectangular, and humaniform heads swiveled, audio sensors perked up, and countless photoreceptors came into sharp focus.
At some point the percolator had started perking, so Cate put some sugar in one of the polystyrene cups and poured coffee over it.
The IT curve, the Propper Chair, and all the other little perks of the working life had lost their sheen.
She also had a little Baggie filled with twelve saltines, the perks of being a pregnant woman.
In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet.
For a fleeting second, the thought of more tea did seem to perk Steyn up.
Somebody who was probably at a university or government lab because the salaries were lower than the new biotech companies were paying, and the somebody could be tempted by an astronomical salary and great perks.
A group of coffee-bar regulars, townsmen who stopped to sample her special blend and her cardamon or poppy-seed rolls before they went to play golf at Bogey Wells, arrived before the coffee finished perking.
On that road coppers rolled drunks for their small change and assured one another that bribes were just perks, and it got worse.
Peg Guester always says you got ears like a dog, perk up at everything.
He liked to say that living barefoot was a major perk of being a househusband, but Amanda had always suspected that he simply hated caging his feet, which were huge.
One could read, chalked on a slate: Rillettes du Morvan Fillet of veal with lentils Cheese Tarte maison The plump Magistrate perked up in this atmosphere, greedily sniffing the thick scent of food.
She woke to the bitter tang of black Colombian perking in the pot, the scent mingling with a buttery aroma of pancakes, the sizzle of bacon in its lake of fat, all lacing in their steamy collaboration to make a perfect moist morning And then she snapped awake, really awake-on the hard rover bunk, hugging herself in her thermoelectric blanket.
Disjunction seems of all expedients worst: If any stay, then stay should every man, Gather, inlace, and close up hip to hip, And perk and bristle hedgehog-like with spines!