1 [C] a soft round fruit with smooth red or purple skin, sweet flesh and a flat stone/pit inside:
a plum tree
2 [U,C] a dark reddish-purple colour
adjective (BrE) (of a job, etc.) considered very good and worth having:
She's landed a plum job at the BBC.
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