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[ adjective ] insignificantly small; a matter of form only
Examples "the fee was nominal" "a token gesture of resistance" (`tokenish' is informal as in "a tokenish gesture") Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating_class of nearly one_thousand at Yale ; that_is , about one-half of one per_cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' . Related terms |
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