shī​lù

to hold a sinecure

  • created sense approved 尸禄/屍祿 · shī​lù · to hold a sinecure — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    尸禄 / 屍祿

    shī​lù

    to hold a sinecure

    To receive a salary without doing any work or fulfilling one's duties; to hold a position for the pay while neglecting the responsibilities.

    尸祿

    尸 (bound) → 尸/屍 · shī · corpse 禄 (bound) → 禄/祿 · lù · official salary

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense