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The mayor was accused of giving her friends sinecure positions in the government, where they received high salaries for doing very little work.sinecure = a paid job that involves minimal duties
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After retiring from her successful career, Jane was offered a sinecure position on the board of directors, allowing her to continue to contribute her expertise without the demands of a full-time job.sinecure = paid job that involves minimal duties
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He even had a job, a sinecure, more highly-paid than his old job had been. (source)sinecure = a paid position that involves minimal duties
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He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.† (source)
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Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,—places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,—and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.† (source)
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Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.† (source)
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There is no such position officially, but it sometimes came into existence through necessity, and was the opposite of a sinecure.† (source)
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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. (source)sinecures = paid positions that involves minimal duties
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That perhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to this place, all needful accommodation, should be an enormous sinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, a clergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a staff in a cathedral, and what not), — while the public was put to the inconvenience of which we had a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, and which we knew to be quite monstrous.† (source)
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All the Sinecurists.† (source)
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His job was not a sinecure.† (source)
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That, perhaps, it was a little unreasonable that these registrars in the receipt of profits amounting to eight or nine thousand pounds a year (to say nothing of the profits of the deputy registrars, and clerks of seats), should not be obliged to spend a little of that money, in finding a reasonably safe place for the important documents which all classes of people were compelled to hand over to them, whether they would or no. That, perhaps, it was a little unjust, that all the great offices in this great office should be magnificent sinecures, while the unfortunate working-clerks in the cold dark room upstairs were the worst rewarded, and the least considered men, doing important services, i† (source)
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Ser Ilyn's appointment had been a wedding gift from Robert Baratheon to the father of his bride, a sinecure to compensate Payne for the tongue he'd lost in the service of House Lannister.† (source)
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He does have a job in the company library, an undemanding sinecure where he can do a lot of reading without bothering anyone, and occasionally he does a little research for one of the legitimate biologists on the staff.† (source)
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The average working week was now about twenty hours— but those twenty hours were no sinecure.† (source)
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That he entered; and he learnt the rules of the game so well and played it so assiduously that he emerged at the age of sixty with a Lady Margaret for wife, with a knighthood, with a sinecure of some sort, three sons, and a country house.† (source)
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