nominal
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Of damages, a token sum awarded where a right is infringed without any actual loss.
Having proved trespass but no harm, the claimant recovered only nominal damages of a few pounds.
Business adjective
Measured in current prices without adjusting for inflation.
Nominal wages rose four percent, but in real terms workers were no better off.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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