tokenism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

tokenism tokenisms

Etymology

From token + -ism.

Related words

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