Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• Apr 24, 2015 ... Bill Nemitz: Tuition gift for Guard an empty gesture if done on the cheap. A Maine bill would force public colleges to absorb the cost of helping ...
• Rocky: really? wow no ones ever actually taken us up on our offer before CeCe: yea havent you guys ever heard of an empty gesture? by Mac Is Fresh January ...
• Sep 17, 2009 ... can't make an empty gesture with a funhouser! ... Come on Larry, everyone knows that you can't make an empty gesture to a Funkhouser.
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• an action or a decision that is so small or inconsequential as to be only symbolic. Offering to pay for my dinner was only a token gesture. That does little to make ...
• ADJECTIVEThe announcement was welcomed as a step in the right direction, but was widely seen as a token gesture. Brazilian Portuguese: simbólico ...
• Offering to pay for my dinner was only a token gesture. That does little to make up for my inconvenience. McGraw
• ... think somebody/something is important, when really you are not sincere The government has only made a token gesture towards helping the unemployed.
• Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal ...