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tokenism
[ toh-kuh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- 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.
- 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.
tokenism
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noun
- the practice of making only a token effort or doing no more than the minimum, esp in order to comply with a law
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Derived Forms
- ËŒ³Ù´Ç°ì±ð²Ôˈ¾±²õ³Ù¾±³¦, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù´Çk±ð²Ô·¾±²õt¾±³¦ adjective
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Dr Yakubu said her appointment was not one of "tokenism" and she was not someone who could be "manipulated".
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Two years ago, Black artists at Long Beach Opera accused the company of racial tokenism and LBO canceled the production, which was to have featured HEX.
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Franak Viacorka, an adviser to Tikhanovskaya, told the BBC that Lukashenko's gesture to Maria was tokenism.
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But a senior minister dismissed that as a "misconception about the bill fuelling tokenism".
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“Sometimes tokenism has run its course. I don’t want to just be that person,†he said.
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