Meaning & use
Nominally
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In name only, without corresponding to the actual state of affairs; technically but not in reality.
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The company is nominally independent, but a single investor controls most of its shares.
He is nominally the manager, though his assistant makes most of the real decisions.
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"Nominally" comes from the Latin "nomen" (name), the same root found in "nominate" and "nomenclature."
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