Usually means: Superficial inclusion to avoid criticism.
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  1. tokenism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tokenism: Merriam-Webster
  3. tokenism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tokenism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tokenism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tokenism, tokenism: Wordnik
  7. tokenism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tokenism: Wiktionary
  9. tokenism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tokenism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tokenism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tokenism: Dictionary.com
  13. Tokenism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. tokenism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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noun:  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.

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