WordNet
n. a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation
Usage examples of "token payment".
When two more weeks went by without even a token payment, the entire squadron packed, armed, mounted, and after freeing the Black Horse noncoms, rode out of Kehnooryos Atheenahs unopposed.
It is only a token payment, but I want you to accept it as proof that if we live long enough, you and I, every dollar of that debt will be returned to you.
Aunon, to the faculty and staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University, and to the CSU chapters of HKN and IEEE, in token payment of the only other kind of moral debt that is essentially unpayable.
Often when the first suit was filed, they capitulatedespecially if the Lakotah could offer them some token payment in return for the relics.
Often when the first suit was filed, they capitulated-especially if the Lakotah could offer them some token payment in return for the relics.
We're not asking for too much - this is a crumb, a token payment on account, a single kiss after ten thousand beatings.
The token payment--twenty silver dollars--lay untouched in the payoff trough.
When two more weeks went by without even a token payment, the entire squadron packed, armed, mounted, and, after freeing the Black Horse noncoms, rode out of Kehnooryohs Atheenahs unopposed.
It might be easier to agree to some token payment, say a couple of million, to get rid of them.