tokenism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people. countable,uncountable
    — We know the prime minister regards environmental matters as mere tokenism. But we at least expected his ritual once-a-year speech on the issue.

词形变化

tokenisms plural

词源

Etymology tree
English token
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English tokenism
From token + -ism.
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