| in name only | |
adverb | |
| by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only" [syn: in name] |
in name only
Also, only in name. Nominally, not actually. For example, He's the chief executive in name only; his vice-president makes all the decisions, or Theirs was a marriage only in name; they lived on different continents. [Late 1300s]