fringe benefit

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsperquisiteperk

   Broaderbenefit

   Narrowerappanagegratuity

Questions about fringe benefit

What does fringe benefit mean?

fringe benefit means "an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)".

What is another word for fringe benefit?

Close synonyms include perquisite, perk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fringe benefit a common word?

fringe benefit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.