Crossword clues for sinecure
sinecure
- Cushy job
- Comfortable position that's safe to hold at home
- Without French priest, one’s paid for nothing
- Wave Victor away - a very easy job
- Paid job with minimal work - insecure
- Job with minimal duties
- Soft job
- Well-paid job with no work
- Source of gravity
- Soft snap
- Paid job with minimal work — insecure (anag)
- No work, all play
- Job for the lazy
- Cushy position
- Cushy gig
- No-show job
- Nice work if you can get it
- Relaxing job
- Gravy source
- Figurehead's office
- Political payoff, perhaps
- *Source of gravity
- A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached
- An office that involves minimal duties
- Plum for a ward heeler
- Easy job
- All-play-no-work position
- Very lucrative post
- Assuming elected, hold down a cushy job
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinecure \Si`ne*cure\, n. [L. sine without + cura care, LL., a cure. See Cure.]
An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
--Ayliffe.-
Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.
--Macaulay.
Sinecure \Si"ne*cure\, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job. 2 An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. vb. (context transitive English) To put or place in a sinecure.
WordNet
n. a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached
an office that involves minimal duties
Wikipedia
A sinecure (from Latin sine = "without" and cura = "care") means an office that requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service. The term originated in the medieval church, where it signified a post without any responsibility for the "[[cure of souls|cure [care] of souls]]", the regular liturgical and pastoral functions of a cleric, but came to be applied to any post, secular or ecclesiastical, that involved little or no actual work. Sinecures have historically provided a potent tool for governments or monarchs to distribute patronage, while recipients are able to store up titles and easy salaries.
A sinecure is not necessarily a figurehead, which generally requires active participation in government, albeit with a lack of power.
A sinecure can also be given to an individual whose primary job is in another office, but requires a sinecure title to perform that job. For example, the Government House Leader in Canada is often given a sinecure ministry position so that he or she may become a member of the Cabinet. Similar examples are the Lord Privy Seal and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the British cabinet. Other sinecures operate as legal fictions, such as the British office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, used as a legal excuse for resigning from Parliament.
Usage examples of "sinecure".
Warden of the Mint was a profitable sinecure, usually granted to some man who knew little and cared less about coining but who had places in high friends.
Bahamas, however, were a favourite resort for pirates and other men of desperate character, and Lilburne soon discovered that his place was no sinecure.
Soho crowd, to his humble but lucrative sinecure in the Megalopolis Galleria, where he set up shop after that vast shopping mall elected a governor and declared statehood.
Radical ideologues, faced with Niagara-size flows of polluter money from Coors, Olin, Scaife, and others, set up magazines and newspapers and cultivated a generation of young pundits, writers and propagandists, giving them lucrative sinecures inside right-wing think tanks, now numbering more than 560, from which they bombard the media with carefully honed messages justifying corporate profit-taking.
Her Grace of Norfolk had repeatedly assured them that they owned a lifetime sinecure of her and her service, it was his bounden duty to keep them at the hall in the style to which they were accustomed so long as they lived and with no common toil or labor expected of them, they had at last and grudgingly agreed to meet with some of the prospective bridegrooms.
In Germany, owing to the peculiar conditions of the Empire, though the office of burgrave had become a sinecure by the end of the 13th century, the title, as borne by feudal nobles having the status of princes of the Empire, obtained a quasi-royal significance.
Corbiere was paid through such sinecures as his appointment as naval officer at Jamaica, though he never stirred from England, and as Commissioner of Wines Licenses, which sounds like the cushiest of posts.
Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan was a low-ranking ImpSec courier officer, a nepotistic sinecure that shuffled him off into routine duties that took him out of the way.
Baron de la Baudraye called on his last remaining debtors, and reappeared at Sancerre as Master of Appeals, with an appointment as Royal Commissioner to a commercial association established in the Nivernais, at a salary of six thousand francs, an absolute sinecure.
All Cuff has to do -- in return for this sinecure -- is make sure Oliver wins the three or four fishing tournaments he finds time to enter each year.
I have heard of a good many soft sinecures, but it seems to me that keeping toll-bridge on a glacier is the softest one I have encountered yet.
From Vorob’yev’s and practically everybody else’s point of view, Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan was a low-ranking ImpSec courier officer, a nepotistic sinecure that shuffled him off into routine duties that took him out of the way.
The canonship was a sinecure he had held for some time, and his real work was diplomacy.
After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important.
After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important.