plum
adjective/plʌm/
/plʌm/
[only before noun]- (of a job, etc.) considered very good and worth having
- She's landed a plum job at the BBC.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlum is used with these nouns:- job
- role
Word OriginOld English plūme, from medieval Latin pruna, from Latin prunum, from Greek prou(m)non ‘plum’.Definitions on the go
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