(n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
(n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
(v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And once in the top job, there is little incentive to change anything: mandarins, says Gumbel, "can't be fired … at worst they're 'put in a cupboard', meaning shunted off to a low-profile job or a comfortable sinecure".
(2) More likely, he’ll continue his oleaginous slide into a six-figure sinecure at a place like the Heritage Foundation, where regular-Joe conservatives punting $35 donations to “stop Obamacare” can fund his farting out four blog posts per month.
(3) I had always assumed that everybody had always assumed that Andy’s former job as “UK trade envoy” was merely some sinecure designed to get the Queen’s second son between golf courses without any boring little people making a fuss about who was paying for the helicopters.
(4) This is a development institution for the planet, not a sinecure for allies of whoever is sitting in the White House – even when it is Mr Obama.
(5) According to BlackBerry, it certainly wasn't a sinecure - not at all.
(6) Patten had treated the job as a sinecure, "and nothing you have said has changed my perspective".
(7) The current holder of this well-paid and undemanding sinecure, Sir Alex Allan, tried to convince the select committee that he would be proactive and would not be sidelined.
(8) But also, because he leads a government that must provide sinecures for Liberal Democrat as well as Conservative MPs, and because an outright election victory looks increasingly unlikely, he can't buy their affection or hold out the prospect that they will be rewarded if only they delay gratification.