From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplum job/role/assignment etcplum job/role/assignment etcinformalJOB/WORK a good job etc that other people wish they had He landed a plum role in a TV mini-series. → plum
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plum job/role/assignment etc• For me, it was a plum assignment.• The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk.• He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago. 