sinecure

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.

   “Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]”

2. isim An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
3. sıfat Requiring no work for an ample reward.

   “By the act of union (1800), the offices of Irish secretary, a sinecure post, and lord lieutenant's secretary were combined.”

4. sıfat Having the appearance of functionality without being of any actual use or purpose.

   “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.”

5. fiil To put or place in a sinecure.