sinecure

/sahy-ni-kyoor, sin-i-/US // ˈsaɪ nɪˌkyʊər, ˈsɪn ɪ- //UK // (ˈsaɪnɪˌkjʊə) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- : an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls.

as insitting duck

Forms: sinecures

Synonyms

But, while the title was supposed to be a sinecure, instead Smith went from running for the nation’s highest office to running around trying to rent the highest offices.
The job is often a sinecure offered to widely admired figures.
By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.
The business of the worthy padres among them must be a perfect sinecure.
But the man who accepts the position of Indian Agent and conscientiously attends to its duties has no sinecure on his hands.
Tom, however, took his knocks with a good grace, and reaped all the advantage possible out of his dangerous sinecure.
The dean is the presiding officer in chapel: his business is to pull up the absentees—no sinecure, it is said.

/sahy-ni-kyoor, sin-i-/US // ˈsaɪ nɪˌkyʊər, ˈsɪn ɪ- //UK // (ˈsaɪnɪˌkjʊə) //

闲职,干部职务,干部职位,干俸

n.名词 noun

1
- : an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- : an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls.

as insitting duck

Forms: sinecures

Synonyms

But, while the title was supposed to be a sinecure, instead Smith went from running for the nation’s highest office to running around trying to rent the highest offices.
The job is often a sinecure offered to widely admired figures.
By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.
The business of the worthy padres among them must be a perfect sinecure.
But the man who accepts the position of Indian Agent and conscientiously attends to its duties has no sinecure on his hands.
Tom, however, took his knocks with a good grace, and reaped all the advantage possible out of his dangerous sinecure.
The dean is the presiding officer in chapel: his business is to pull up the absentees—no sinecure, it is said.