sinecure
- n a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached
- n an office that involves minimal duties
- Last week, after a two-month trial during which the prosecution proved that David's beer-selling sinecure was merely a front for his gambling and labor-racketeering interests, a court convicted him of tax evasion.
- The job was no sinecure, but it had a double attraction for this able, efficient veteran of 16 Congressional years: a guaranteed 15-year tenure at $10,000 a year, a chance to .
- If he was giving up the top job at Goldman Sachs, he wasn't doing it for a sinecure.