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Sinecure meaning
A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job. | An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Example sentences (10)
The AG further explained that these “sinecure appointments” can be seen scattered across the public sector by the dozens and will “necessarily have to be terminated” since they placed a “bloat on the public sector wage bill”.
In this speech, Biden boasts his threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loans from Ukraine if they did not agree to fire the prosecutor who happened to be investigating the company giving his son a cushy sinecure.
Billias, p. 324 At that time the office of vice president was largely a sinecure; Gerry's duties included advancing the administration's agenda in Congress and dispensing patronage positions in New England.
But this same generous nature led him to bestow on his relations the riches they were eager to accumulate; on their behalf, and to the discredit of his pontificate, he revived sinecure offices which had been suppressed by Innocent XI.
Derby had intended to replace Chelmsford once a vacancy in a suitable sinecure developed.
Eddy runs her own PR firm, and Patsy holds a sinecure position at a top British fashion magazine.
It was natural, therefore, that he should choose a sinecure office, and the ease of the Lords.
The Paymaster General Act 1782 ended the post as a lucrative sinecure.
The post was more an ideal than a workable reality, but it survived (mostly as a sinecure ) in the loosely structured Press until the 18th century.
The Princess offered Gautier a sinecure as her librarian in 1868, a position that gave him access to the court of Napoleon III.