Meaning & use
plum job
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Meaning
nouncountableinformalapproving
A very desirable job that pays well, carries prestige or comes with easy duties and good perks.
Grammar: Countable: a plum job, plum jobs.
Patterns
- land a plum job
- a plum job at somewhere
He landed a plum job at a top law firm straight after graduation.
Being the manager's assistant was a plum job with great hours.
Plum jobs in the film industry rarely go to outsiders.
Word forms
| plural | plum jobs |
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Common combinations
- land a plum job
- She landed a plum job in television.
- offer a plum job
- They offered him a plum job overseas.
- plum job at
- He has a plum job at the embassy.
- cushy plum job
- People envied her cushy plum job.
- political plum job
- The new governor gave friends political plum jobs.
Synonyms and how they differ
- dream job
- Dream job is about personal ambition, whereas plum job is judged by others as a great position.
- cushy job
- Cushy job stresses easy work, while plum job stresses how desirable the post is overall.
- sinecure
- A sinecure is a paid position with little or no work, so it is narrower and more critical than plum job.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: plum job or plumb?
plum job vs plumb
Plumb means exactly vertical or to measure depth, and plumber works with pipes. A plum job has nothing to do with them.
Practice
Everyone envied Tom after he landed a ___ at the company's Paris office.
Choose one answer.
A plum job is a highly desirable post. Dead-end, part-time and odd jobs are not usually envied.
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