nominal

Speech parts

1. nominal - Noun

2. nominal - Adjective

3. nominal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.

Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.

A nominalist.

A verb formed from a noun.

A name; an appellation.

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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. William Vickrey

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Janet Yellen

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on. William Henry Maule

There is no security of property, where a despotic authority can possess itself of the property of the subject against his consent. Neither is there such security, where the consent is merely nominal and delusive. Jean-Baptiste Say

I shall argue that Keynesian macroeconomics neither asserts nor requires nominal wage and/or price rigidity. It does assert and require that markets not be instantaneously and continuously cleared by prices. James Tobin

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. Piers Anthony

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