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plum assignment

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plum assignment

A task, post, or position that is especially enviable or desirable. Dennis is flying to Thailand to cover the tourism industry there, a plum assignment that everyone in the office desperately wanted. Since Sinead got that plum assignment at the bank, she has been earning more money than she knows what to do with!
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