token gesture

collocation in English

meaningsoftokenandgesture

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token
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈtəʊ.kən/us
/ˈtoʊ.kən/
used to describe an action, an amount, etc. that is intended to represent something or to show that you are doing something, even if is very small or has a ...
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gesture
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒes.tʃər/us
/ˈdʒes.tʃɚ/
a movement of the hands, arms, or head, etc. to express an idea ...
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(Definition oftokenandgesturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftoken gesture

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Of six debtor states in 1793, only one made atokengesturetoward payment.
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The natural light is simply atokengesture.
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We want more than atokengesturein regard to pipelines; we want to consider the whole question of energy efficiency.
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That is the only way of preventing this fund being a merelytokengesture.
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I hope that we shall remember then the dangers of believing such atokengesture.
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He knew that was nothing more than atokengesture.
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We now have an opportunity for atokengesture.
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It may mean that there would be atokengesture.
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We are making atokengestureof a kind which no reputable person familiar with the educational life can justify.
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The co-opting of anglers and tenant netsmen is something of atokengesturetowards increasing representation.
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Therefore, was not her reaction in her speech to this recent rathertokengestureof disarmament correct?
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From a financial point of view, does the order of magnitude involved not make this atokengesture?
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In some places, probation has become little more than atokengestureon the part of the courts making probation orders.
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We must increase those numbers, not as atokengesturebut because of the personal contribution that the people appointed can make.
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I agree that this is merely atokengestureto get the principle established.
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However, we expect it to be more than atokengesture.
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With respect, we do not want atokengesture.
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It is a judgment about how institutions and people respond to atokengesture.
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It is a sop, atokengesture, a period of consideration before compulsion begins to apply.
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We have been told that that is only atokengesture.
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