si-ne-cure
noun :: An office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income.
"There being only five prisoners at Loewestein, the post of turnkey was not a very onerous one, but rather a sort of sinecure, given after a long period of service." --Dumas, Alexandre
noun :: An office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income.
"There being only five prisoners at Loewestein, the post of turnkey was not a very onerous one, but rather a sort of sinecure, given after a long period of service." --Dumas, Alexandre
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