- Look up
sinecure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
sinecure (/ˈsɪnɪkjʊər/ or /ˈsaɪnɪkjʊər/; from the
Latin sine, 'without', and cura, 'care') is a...
- "No
Sinecure" is a
short story by E. W. Hornung, and
features the
gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his
companion and biographer,
Bunny Manders. The story...
- and
Lyndon B. Johnson, respectively, and was
considered something of a
sinecure. Poet and
literary scholar Charles Olson, who
served as a
Democratic National...
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raising large amounts of money. Many of the
clerks and
other officials held
sinecures; the holders, in lieu of wages,
charged increasingly exorbitant fees to...
- also
called the
Emoluments Clause, or the
Incompatibility Clause, or the
Sinecure Clause) is a
provision in
Article 1,
Section 6,
Clause 2 of the United...
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primarily contractual and it
became progressively more of a
functionless sinecure. The head of a
single regiment or demi-brigade
would be
called a 'mestre...
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until 1895.
While many of his
predecessors had
approached the
office as a
sinecure,
Roosevelt fought the
spoilsmen and
demanded enforcement of
civil service...
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private secretary Lord
Chancellor Leader of the
House of
Commons Leader of the
House of
Lords Whips Law
officers Sinecures List of
political offices v t e...
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Wordsworth was by 1820
respectable and
highly regarded,
holding a
government sinecure, but
wrote relatively little. In the
discussion of
English literature,...
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Crown Steward and
Bailiff of the
Manor of Northstead.
These offices are
sinecures (that is, they
involve no
actual duties); they
exist solely to permit...
