sinecure
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A paid position requiring little or no work.
The advisory role was a comfortable sinecure.
Law noun
A position that carries pay or status but requires little or no actual work.
Critics dismissed the advisory post as a sinecure created to reward a political ally.
Business noun
A paid position requiring little or no real work.
The board seat was a sinecure for the founder’s cousin.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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