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/ˈsaɪ.nɪˌkjʊə/ · noun
A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job..
In the ADF, while the numbers vary between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay scales.
However, by the time of World War II (if not before), politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers.
Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
A lucrative sinecure in the Excise was bestowed on Ferguson.
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.
With extra traffic, numerous boat trains to and from Southampton Docks, and working of empty stock, his job, like that of most signalmen, is no sinecure.
By the act of union (1800), the offices of Irish secretary, a sinecure post, and lord lieutenant's secretary were combined.
The old man hastily pulled down his spectacles from their sinecure office on his forehead, and looked at her with an expression of most angry amazement.
Use sinecure when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sinecure means A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job..
Common synonyms include bankers' hours, cushy number.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the ADF, while the numbers vary between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay scales.
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