token payment

collocation in English

meaningsoftokenandpayment

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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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payment
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/us
/ˈpeɪ.mənt/
an amount of ...
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(Definition oftokenandpaymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftoken payment

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There was atokenpaymentin cases where possible, for additional comforts other than supplementary rations.
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If you make atokenpaymentwhich is not agreed to by the bondholders, that is default.
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This £2,000,000 is not a final payment; it is just as much atokenpaymentas the £2,000,000 for the depressed areas which we were discussing yesterday.
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Though it is a meagre grant of £1,750, pitifully inadequate, one values it because it is a species oftokenpayment.
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You could have a purelytokenpaymentfrom a registered charity.
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I said that they should take atokenpayment.
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I hope that atokenpaymentwill be introduced more widely.
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I think he sent a penny stamp, or something equivalent to it—what was called at the time atokenpayment.
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There is no mention of any prospective payment, except possibly atokenpayment, in respect of the coming year.
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Would it not be well to jog their memory that atokenpaymentwould be welcomed?
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Our efficient administrators could only contribute a meretokenpayment.
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That brings me to my next point—namely, the question of thetokenpayment.
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They take atokenpaymentas remuneration for their expertise, knowledge and time.
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I do not show anytokenpaymentat all.
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The corporation's initial intention is to consider the possibility of a smalltokenpayment.
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Let us regard this three thousand as a very feebletokenpaymentof what we hope will come in the immediate future.
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Some of their men received a meretokenpayment; some of them got nothing.
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It would surely be much better to adopt the straight honourable international financial system of giving them 80,000 dollars as atokenpayment.
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I should have thought that it was not impossible to arrange sometokenpaymentto overcome that difficulty.
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