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[toh-kuhn]

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noun

something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.

a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty.

a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip.

something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.

Also called token coin. a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.

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anything of only nominal value similarly used, as paper currency.

an item, idea, person, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication.

Logic, Linguistics. a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.” Compare type (def. 8).

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verb (used with object)

to be a token of; signify; symbolize.

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adjective

10.

serving as a token: a token gift; a token male on an all-female staff.

11.

slight; perfunctory; minimal: token resistance.

Idioms

12.

by the same token,

in proof of which.

moreover; furthermore: She has a talent as a painter, and by the same token has a sharp eye for detail.

13.

in token of, as a sign of; in evidence of: a ring in token of his love.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach

Related forms

pre·to·ken, noun, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
10. symbolic.

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Example Sentences

Transit officials say it allows the agency to hire fewer token clerks at underused stations.

There was a type of token economy, which was different for each culture.

Not one even bothered to make a token public apology.

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Transit officials say it allows the agency to hire fewer token clerks at underused stations.

There was a type of token economy, which was different for each culture.

Not one even bothered to make a token public apology.

The city pays for their uniforms, and they get a token payment, hardly anything.

So his goal is to minimize what he lays out in his token of appreciation.

If you want to include a token patch of lawn in your landscape, make it a statement.

Once everyone has had a chance to put down their token, anyone who was right gets to keep their token.

The sports networks toss only token bones to academics, if any at all.

The old estimate was based on token clerk observations.

The information exchange with a website is all encrypted, and is a simple click-to-enter functionality using a digital token.

Methane regulation will never get more than token efficiency.

If you don't win a token for the new expansion, don't despair.

By the same token there is no guarantee there will be a grand minimum at all in this century.

All you have to do is pay a token registration fee and sign up.

By the same token its non-existence should be treated likewise.

Mary and flipped back the bottle cap to collect the token underneath.

It is always something tiny, a token symbol of the seniors' years at the college, and it is always a secret.

At a state farewell dinner she presents him a sly token of affection:.

None of them will produce more than perhaps a trickle of token power after a few cloudy days.

Whoever gets the token in their piece is considered the king-or queen-and becomes responsible for the next king cake.

By the same token each of us who recovers does so in our own unique way.

But by the same token a patent holder can prevent its use by others and, more to the point, profit from their use of.

For two hours the church and the street without was lined with those who had come to pay their last token of respect.

We already have one token member of your ethnicity, so you do not add to the diversity of our department.

Half of the tokens were of one color that resulted in only the chimpanzee that gave the token receiving a reward.

Many token booths and entrances are permanently closed.

They may offer a few token seminars or workshops for faculty, but those are usually window dressing.

It is nice that the market is using the wooden token exchange but maybe they could do it for everyone.

Otto ran to a token booth, grabbed a fire extinguisher and raced back toward the rolling ball of fire.

He goes back to adulation and pro ball with token penalties.

Sadly this collection only pays token tribute to the character behind the rise of contemporary gaming.

Do not expect any altruism--other than token lip service--from major textbook publishers.

It must provide a token to purchase the satisfaction of a need.

After a confirmation from you, this will spend one help token.

But wind turbines are funded out of fossil fuel tax revenues, and built in token numbers to protect those revenues.

Whether fist-bumping a money token will ever replace the slick bill-palming technique that gets you the best table is doubtful.

All this is a token of how much the prototype has moved from being a thing to being an idea.

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World English Dictionary

token (ˈtəʊkən)

—n
1.	an indication, warning, or sign of something
2.	a symbol or visible representation of something
3.	something that indicates authority, proof, or authenticity
4.	a metal or plastic disc, such as a substitute for currency for use in slot machines
5.	a memento
6.	a gift voucher that can be used as payment for goods of a specified value
7.	(modifier) as a matter of form only; nominal: a token increase in salary
8.	linguistics Compare type a symbol regarded as an individual concrete mark, not as a class of identical symbols
9.	philosophy Compare type an individual instance: if the same sentence has different truth-values on different occasions of utterance the truth-value may be said to attach to the sentence-token
10.	by the same token moreover and for the same or a similar reason

—vb
11.	(tr) to act or serve as a warning or symbol of; betoken

[Old English tācen; related to Old Frisian tēken, Old Saxon tēkan, Old High German zeihhan, Old Norse teikn; see teach]

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Word Origin & History

token

O.E. tacen "sign, symbol, evidence" (related to tæcan "show, explain, teach"), from P.Gmc. *taiknan (cf. O.S. tekan, O.N. teikn "zodiac sign, omen, token," O.Fris., M.Du. teken, Du. teken, O.H.G. zeihhan, Ger. zeichen, Goth. taikn "sign, token"), from PIE base *deik- "to show" (see

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teach). Meaning "coin-like piece of stamped metal" is first recorded 1598. The adj. meaning "nominal" is from 1915, from the noun. In integration sense, first recorded 1960; tokenism is first recorded 1962. Original sense of "evidence" is retained in by the same token (1463), originally "introducing a corroborating evidence."

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Computing Dictionary

token definition

1. A basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier. Compare: lexeme.
2. (Or "pumpkin") An abstact concept passed between cooperating agents to ensure synchronised access to a shared resource. Such a token is never duplicated or destroyed (unless the resource is) and whoever has the token has exclusive access to the resource it controls. See for example token ring.
If several programmers are working on a program, one programmer will "have the token" at any time, meaning that only he can change the program whereas others can only read it. If someone else wants to modify it he must first obtain the token.
(1999-02-23)

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

token

see by the same token; in token of.

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