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sinecure
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sinecure noun easily managed job, easy chore, easy employment, easy job, easy labor, effortless assignment, effortless employment, effortless undertaking, effortless work, light labor, light work, simple job, soft job, undeeanding chore, undemanding job, undemanding task

SINECURE. In the ecclesiastical law, this term is used to signify that an ecclesiastical officer is without a charge or cure.
     2. In common parlance it means the receipt of a salary for an office when there are no duties to be performed.
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Sinecurists with high falutin' appendages to their names,have tried all kinds of cock-eyed remedies to curb these hoodlums;apart from the one that works.
Letter: Thing of the past by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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