A job with an important title but no real responsibility [duplicate]
What's the word for a job with an important title but no real responsibility?
Solution 1:
Sinecure - an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
EDIT: From the Oxford Dictionaries:
sinecure
NOUN
A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
‘political sinecures for the supporters of ministers’
Originally meaning "an ecclesiastical benefice, without cure of souls" (Latin sine cura - "without cure" mod. "care".) The word's more secular development is reflected in OED sense 2"
- Any office or position which has no work or duties attached to it, esp. one which yields some stipend or emolument.
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer v. i Well, a Widow, I see, is a kind of a sine cure.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 26 Nov. He..makes ye Place in a manner a sine-cure; as most other Publick Readers do.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 368 The magistracy of the city of London have adopted this ward only as a sine cure for the senior alderman.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 272
Many of the best institutions moulder into Sinecures.1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 553 If all men were under the influence of religion government would be a sinecure.
1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost vi Grace's duties were never oppressive, but on Sunday they were a sinecure.
Solution 2:
This definition looks pretty precise for OP's intended meaning...
titular position (univsource.com)
A titular position is a position with just the title, but without the power or responsibilities that the position carries.