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nominal

The nominal price, rate, or wage is the one before adjustments to reflect the true value. GDP grew at a nominal rate of 3.4%, or 1.4% after adjusting for inflation. A nominal position, change, etc. is one in name only, without reflection what actually happens. They gained nominal independence from Britain in 1941, but Britain continued to exercise a good deal of control for years. A nominal sum, fee, charge, gift, etc. is a small one compared to the true value. He lives with his parents who only charge him a nominal rent. A nominal form, position, phrase, etc. is related to nouns. The nominal form of the word is aki.

nominal

A nominal is a noun or phrase that functions as head of a noun phrase. This sentence contains two nominals. A nominal is a word or phrase that shares features with nouns.

nominal

relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name the Russian system of nominal brevity a nominal lists of priests taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls (= token, tokenish) insignificantly small; a matter of form only ('tokenish' is informal) the fee was nominal a token gesture of resistance a toknenish gesture pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun nominal phrase noun phrase (= titular) existing in name only the nominal (or titular) head of his party of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation the nominal GDP nominal interest rates (= nominative) named; bearing the name of a specific person nominative shares of stock (= noun phrase) a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Movie subtitles

Purely nominal. Now, let me see. Five, ten.
And the laws of your country only allow you to take a nominal amount.
First unit is working fine. Everything is nominal.
The nominal leader of the Tokugawa espionage network was Munenori Yagyu, but in reality the network was run by somebody else.
Nominal, but a definite drain.
Trajectory nominal.
One of our R.F. S shows six points over nominal at pressure three.
Make sure everything there is nominal.
All circuit banks nominal.
Roger, Houston, we read nominal A.L.C.S.
Situation nominal.
Motor burns on all rocket engines for both satellites appear nominal.
Life-support system, nominal.
For a nominal charge, our staff photographer will be happy to prepare a special souvenir album of your honeymoon stay.
Purely nominal.
You shall be the nominal owner of the ticket.
Comrades This is my nominal chronometer.
If you came here to park this i'll just charge you nominal rates but if you're here to sell it you'll have to give me three and a half minutes for my little laugh.
Nominal, but a definite drain. Good.
Did you remember to suppress the nominal factors when you fed those figures in?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I remembered to suppress the nominal factors. Even that?
Check with Wildfire Message Center, Delta Five. Make sure everything there is nominal.
It looks nominal.
All systems nominal.
The nominal leader of the Heike, the emperor of Japan was a 7-year-old boy named Antoku.
All systems nominal, then?
Radiation's nominal.
Uh, 50 kilotons nominal yield.
Particle flux nominal.
Torpedo guidance is on nominal track.
The nominal yield is 30 kilotons.
Nominal ledger, purchase ledger, budget, forecast.

News and current affairs

If the US dollar weakens in relation with other major currencies, China may not need to adjust RMB's nominal rate for quite a while.
On the contrary, the shadow is lengthening with each passing day, owing to the absence of effective policies to get the flow of economy-wide nominal spending back on its previous track.
In a blindly mechanical way, the U.S. had taken the view that all major UN agencies should keep their budgets unchanged in nominal (current-dollar) terms, leading to a drop in real spending because of inflation.
Right now, incomes are slack, households have become crowded, and there is a surplus of housing on the market - all because nominal demand is still far below trend.
They will ask them why they did not take more aggressive steps to return nominal incomes and demand to trend levels when they were sitting in the hot seats.
Nominal bonds are not well hedged against inflation, and, over the long run, assets that are claims to cash without effective control are highly vulnerable to financial vultures.
Second, the effects of austerity were exacerbated by the choice to pursue nominal, rather than structural, fiscal-deficit targets.
When prices are rising, the real interest rate is less than the nominal rate since the borrower repays with dollars that are worth less.
But when prices are falling, the real interest rate exceeds the nominal rate.
This is exacerbated by the fact that borrowers can deduct only nominal interest payments when calculating their taxable income.
These nominal champions of the free market were quick to tell the university what it should do with its money.
But, while the worldwide recession of 1981-2 brought inflation down rapidly, nominal long-term interest rates did not fall immediately, for the world's markets were still not convinced.
High employment costs and nominal tax rates promote small scale enterprises that only thrive on black market employment and tax evasion.
The debt criterion, for example, could be supplemented by a limit on the (trend) growth rate of public spending, which would be kept below that of nominal GDP.
Three levers could be used to reach this goal: adjustment in nominal wages, extension of working time, and a reduction in social-security contributions (compensated for by an increase in value-added tax).
If Greece were to follow the Argentine script and be forced to leave the eurozone after a messy default, its nominal GDP is likely to be halved.
If he and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee thought that the projected growth of nominal spending in the US was on an appropriate recovery path two months ago, they cannot believe that today.
In nominal terms, Italian and Spanish borrowing costs are indeed comparable to the levels of the late 1990's.
If that causes a rise in the departing country's price level, the nominal exchange rate would have to decline further to achieve the same real adjustment.
But real interest rates did not fall enough, because nominal interest rates cannot go below zero.
A rising nominal and real exchange rate can propel structural change; a weak-currency policy is a trap.
The change can be measured by real exchange-rate appreciation, which consists partly in nominal renminbi appreciation against the dollar, and partly in Chinese inflation.
China's government should have let more of the real appreciation take the form of nominal appreciation (dollars per renminbi).
For both sides, it is more desirable to let the adjustment take place through changes in nominal exchange rates, which would help contain deflation in the north and inflation in the south.
Such a simple-minded budget policy as an across-the-board freeze in nominal budgets should be ended immediately.

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