- 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...
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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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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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until 1895.
While many of his
predecessors had
approached the
office as a
sinecure,
Roosevelt fought the
spoilsmen and
demanded enforcement of
civil service...
- 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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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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Affairs of the Treasury),
which existed alone until 1696, had
become a
sinecure by 1744, and
perhaps as
early as 1716; from the late 18th
century the office...
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leaders of the
government departments,
though some
Cabinet positions are
sinecures to a
greater or
lesser degree (for
instance Chancellor of the
Duchy of...
