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tokenism

[toh-kuh-niz-uhm]

to·ken·ism

[toh-kuh-niz-uhm]
noun
1.
the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority.
2.
any legislation, admissions policy, hiring practice, etc., that demonstrates only minimal compliance with rules, laws, or public pressure: Admitting one woman to the men's club was merely tokenism.

Origin:
1960–65; token + -ism

to·ken·is·tic, adjective
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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tokenism (ˈtəʊkəˌnɪzəm)
 
n
the practice of making only a token effort or doing no more than the minimum, esp in order to comply with a law
 
token'istic
 
adj

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