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Pushover vs Sinecure - What's the difference?

pushover | sinecure |

As nouns the difference between pushover and sinecure

is that pushover is someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change his/her mind or comply while sinecure is sinecure.

pushover

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change his/her mind or comply.
    • I'm a pushover when it comes to buying new kitchen gadgets.
  • Someone who lets himself be picked or bullied on without defending or stand up for him/herself.

    • See also

    * cave * cave in * give in * pullover *

    References

    sinecure

    English

    (wikipedia sinecure)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28:
    • 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.
  • * Macaulay
    • A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.
  • An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
    • Ayliffe, Universal Dictionary of Science, page 402
    A sinecure is a benefice without cure of souls.

    Hypernyms

    * (a position that requires no work but still gives a payment) position

    Related terms

    * sinecurism * sinecurist

    Verb

    (sinecur)
  • To put or place in a sinecure.

    • Anagrams

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