Mr Croft was comfortable with his cushy sinecure.
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Sinecure
//ˈsaɪ.nəˌkjʊɹ//
Synonyms for "sinecure" (13 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Related words (6)
Noun(1 words)
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11 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- синекурна длъжност noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Catalan
2 entries- canongia noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- prebenda noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 乾俸 /干俸 noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- 閒職 /闲职 noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Czech
1 entries- trafika noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Danish
3 entries- ben noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- loppetjans noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- sinecure noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Dutch
1 entries- sinecure noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Esperanto
1 entries- sinekuro noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Estonian
1 entries- sinekuur noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Finnish
2 entries- laiskanvirka noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- suojatyöpaikka noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
French
2 entries- planque noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- sinécure noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
German
2 entries- Sinekure noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- Versorgungsposten noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Greek
1 entries- αργομισθία noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Japanese
1 entries- 閑職 noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sinekyre noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sinekyre noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Polish
1 entries- synekura noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Portuguese
1 entries- sinecura noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Romanian
1 entries- sinecură noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Russian
3 entries- корму́шка noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- синеку́ра noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- тёпленькое месте́чко noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sinekura noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- uhljebljenje noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Spanish
4 entries- bicoca noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- canonjía noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- enchufe noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
- prebenda noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Swedish
1 entries- sinekur noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Welsh
1 entries- segurswydd noun (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
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A lucrative sinecure in the Excise was bestowed on Ferguson.
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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.
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