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token

 
/ˈtəʊkən/ adjective [always before noun]

Translation

PERSON A token person is chosen so that an organization can pretend that they care about that type of person.
göstermelik, yapmacık
a token woman The club has two token black members.10541772
ACTION A token action is small or unimportant and may show your future intentions or may only pretend to.
sembolik, cüzi, göstermelik
He made a token effort to find a job.1772
(Definition of token adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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