| 单词 | nominal |
| 释义 | nominal (once / 714 pages) 1adjn 2adj Schools, libraries, and other organizations often ask you to make a nominal donation to their cause. While you want to support many causes, these nominal donations soon add up to a substantial portion of your budget! Another meaning for the adjective nominal is "in name only" or only having a title. The CEO is the nominal head of the company, but you know his assistant is one who is really in charge of the day-to-day business of the company. He is the go-to person for signing invoices, purchase orders, and resolving personnel issues. WORD FAMILYnominal: binominal, nominalism, nominally, nominals+/nominalism: nominalisms, nominalist, nominalistic/nominalist: nominalists USAGE EXAMPLESThe company did not say how much the payments were or how they were paid, but did describe them as “nominal.” New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) Police argued he should get a "nominal" award of £1 at a hearing on Wednesday. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) They are not under contract and as nominal amateurs suffer no financial penalty from quitting their teams. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1 1adj relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name the Russian system of nominal brevity a nominal lists of priests taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls 2adj named; bearing the name of a specific person Syn nominative specified clearly and explicitly stated 3adj existing in name only the nominal (or titular) head of his party Syn titular formal being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) 4adj pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun nominal phrase 5n a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb 2Syn|Hyper nominal phrase, noun phrase phrase an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence 1adj insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) the fee was nominal Syn token, tokenish minimal, minimum the least possible 2adj of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation the nominal GDP nominal interest rates Ant real of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation |
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