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Tokenism

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Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

From token + -ism.

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