sinecure

Definitions

1. Cushy position, sinecure.
2. A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
3. An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
   historical

Equivalents

19 more languages

العربيةالوظيفة السهلة

Bosanskibenhladovinasinekuratrafikaсинекурахладовина+ 3 more

Catalàprebenda

Češtinatrafika

Cymraegsegurswydd

Danskbenloppetjanssinecure

Ελληνικάαργομισθία

Suomilaiskanvirkasuojatyöpaikka

Hrvatskibenhladovinasinekuratrafikaсинекурахладовина+ 3 more

Italianosinecure

日本語閑職

Kurdîbên

Nederlandssinecure

Polskisynekura

Portuguêssinecura

Românăsinecură

Русскийкормушкасинекуратёпленькое месте́чко

Српскиbenhladovinasinekuratrafikaсинекурахладовина+ 3 more

Svenskasinekur

Examples

“Miss⟳ Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place⟳ as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]”

“A lucrative sinecure in the Excise was bestowed on Ferguson.”

“His prospects consisted of a hope⟳ that if he kept up appearances somebody would do something for him. The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort⟳.”

“With extra traffic, numerous boat trains to and from Southampton Docks, and working of empty stock⟳, his job, like⟳ that of most signalmen, is no sinecure.”

“In the ADF, while the numbers vary⟳ between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay⟳ scales.”

“However, by the time of World War II (if not before), politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers.”

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