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sinecure
Word family
si·ne·cure /ˈsaɪnɪkjʊə, ˈsɪn- $ -kjʊr/ noun [countableC] formal
JOB/WORKa job which you get paid for even though you do not have to do very much work 〔有薪酬而工作不多的〕闲职，挂名职务，领干薪的职位
Examples from the Corpus
sinecure• It was not long before the Princess proved that her patronage was not intended as a sinecure.• The schoolmaster's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley, a Magdalen living.• Barnes railway bridge was a sinecure compared with the limbo of the Willesden Marshalling Yards.• This lucrative sinecure was owned from 1554 to 1723 by the Thurn-Taxis family.• Both categories could keep any number of sinecures with their permitted number of cures.• Among the sinecures were chiefly the remaining canonries in cathedrals and colleges.
From Longman Business Dictionary
sinecuresi·ne·cure /ˈsaɪnɪkjʊə, ˈsɪn--kjʊr/ noun [countableC]JOB
a job which you get paid for even though you do not have to do very much
The bureaucrats saw their sinecures endangered by the demand for efficiency.
(1600-1700) Medieval Latin sine cura “without cure (of souls), without the usual duties of a priest”
si·ne·cure noun
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