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Struggle vs Sinecure - What's the difference?

struggle | sinecure |

As nouns the difference between struggle and sinecure

is that struggle is strife, contention, great effort while sinecure is a position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.

As verbs the difference between struggle and sinecure

is that struggle is to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend while sinecure is to put or place in a sinecure.

struggle

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Strife, contention, great effort.
  • *, chapter=23
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.}}

    Verb

    (struggl)
  • To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    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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