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Definition of Sinecure
1. Noun. A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached.
2. Noun. An office that involves minimal duties.
Definition of Sinecure
1. n. An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
2. v. t. To put or place in a sinecure.
Definition of Sinecure
1. Noun. A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sinecure
1. an office or position requiring little or no work [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinecure
Literary usage of Sinecure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1850)
"My Lords, it has been supposed —and your Lordships may perhaps have heard—that
I have nominated one of my sons to a valuable reversionary sinecure in the ..."
2. Musings and Prosings by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1833)
"Nay, do not take from me my sinecure Place ? Consider, my income is small for a
Peer, I'm poor, if you take my odd thousands a year; Consider, I pray you, ..."
3. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville, Henry Reeve (1883)
"In the morning I went to Graham to ask him to advocate my cause in the sinecure
Committee and defend my interests there. After talking over my case (about ..."
4. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville (1875)
"... House—Failure of Stanley's Tactics—Alava and the Duke of Cumberland—A sinecure
Placeman— Lord Glenelg and the King—Concert at Stafford House—The King's ..."
5. The Speeches of the Right Honorable William Huskisson: With a Biographical by William Huskisson (1831)
"sinecure OFFICES —JOINT PAYMASTER OF THE FORCES. April 6. Mr. Creevey having
submitted to the House a resolution, having for its object to abolish one of ..."
6. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"In the canon law, a sinecure is an ecclesiastical bénéfice, ... The strictest
kind of sinecure is where Hie benefice is a donative, and i& conferred by the ..."
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