sinecure

[US]/'saɪnɪkjʊə/
[UK]/'saɪnɪkjʊr/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a job or position that requires little or no real effort or work
Word Forms
Pluralsinecures
Third Person Singularsinecures

Example Sentences

hardly a sinecure (=not a sinecure; no sinecure)

a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection.

He landed a sinecure as a consultant for the company.

The position was seen as a sinecure with little actual work involved.

She was given a sinecure in the marketing department.

The sinecure allowed him plenty of time to pursue his hobbies.

The sinecure came with a generous salary and benefits.

The sinecure was offered to him as a favor from a friend.

She accepted the sinecure knowing it would be an easy job.

The sinecure was created specifically for him due to his connections.

He treated the sinecure as a stepping stone to a more challenging role.

The sinecure allowed her to maintain a work-life balance.

Real-world Examples

He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.

Source: The Economist - Arts

He condemned parliamentary sinecures and argued that too many ministers were in the pocket of the Crown.

Source: The Economist - Arts

In African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda teaching is all too often a sinecure , not a vocation.

Source: The Economist - International

Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.

Source: Adam Bede (Volume Four)

And Prigozhin will go to some sort of weird sinecure in exile in Belarus.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

So far as work went I enjoyed a complete sinecure; I had nothing to do but to walk about the valley, to eat, and to sleep.

Source: Three mysterious people

The most sacred trusts are then considered as sinecures, because they were procured by interest, and only sought to enable a man to keep GOOD COMPANY.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

By thus uniting their fortunes, living on good terms, and profiting by sinecures, the two families might occupy the hotel d'Aubrion with an income of over a hundred thousand francs.

Source: Eugénie Grandet

Most of them were in business, it was true, and several were converting the heathen of China or America to a nebulous protestantism; but a few, he found, were working constructively at jobs that were neither sinecures nor routines.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

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