What is the difference between payment and sinecure?
payment | sinecure |
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
* 2009 , Michael O'Connor, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 25:
* 2010 , Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28:
* Macaulay
An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
To put or place in a sinecure.
As nouns the difference between payment and sinecure
is that payment is (uncountable) the act of paying while sinecure is a position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.As a verb sinecure is
to put or place in a sinecure.payment
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment .” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
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(wikipedia sinecure)Noun
(en noun)- In the ADF, while the numbers vary between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay scales.
- However, by the time of World War II (if not before), politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers.
- A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.
- Ayliffe, Universal Dictionary of Science, page
402
- A sinecure is a benefice without cure of souls.