token
Other forms: tokens
When you give someone a flower or a friendship bracelet or something symbolic of the way you feel about them, you're giving them a token of your affection.
A token is not only something sentimental (like a keepsake) or symbolic (like your friendship bracelet). You, yourself, can also be a token: If you're the only female in your office, for instance, and you were hired just so there'd be at least one woman, then you're the "token female." Tokens can also be a kind of special currency, like the coins you use in slot machines. Before the Metro Card, New York City subway riders paid their fares with tokens.
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a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machinestypes:subway tokena token that is used to pay for entry to the subway system
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something serving as a sign of something else
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something of sentimental valuetypes:love-tokenkeepsake given as a token of lovefavor, favour, party favor, party favoursouvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a partycracker, cracker bonbon, snappera party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both endstype of:
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insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal)
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an individual instance of a type of symbol“the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'”synonyms: itemtypes:postage, postage stamp, stampa small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paidtrading stampa token resembling a stamp given by a retailer to a buyer; the token is redeemable for articles on a special listtype of:symbolan arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
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