prerogative
/prirogg tiv/ • noun 1 a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class. 2 (in UK law) the right of the sovereign, theoretically unrestricted but usually delegated to government or the judiciary. — ORIGIN Latin praerogativa ‘the verdict of the political division which was chosen to vote first in the assembly’.
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