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cushy number

noun
/ˌkʊʃi ˈnʌmbə/UK/ˌkʊʃi ˈnʌmbɚ/US

Etymology

From cushy (“making few demands, comfortable, easy”) + number (“activity, assignment, job”).

  1. derived from *nem-✻
  2. derived from numerus
  3. derived from nombre
  4. derived from noumbre
  5. inherited from number
  6. compounded as cushy number — “cushy + number”

Definitions

  1. A job or task that is easy to do

    A job or task that is easy to do; a position that requires little work or is undemanding; a sinecure.

    • At this rate Wednesdays [PMQs] could become a cushy number for the Labour leader.
    • And they knew who the winners were: those refugees on the other side of the city; the next-door neighbour who’d got a cushy number on benefits.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA