notional
Collocations
2VERB + NOTIONAL
time
NOTIONAL + NOUN
provision
Definitions
adj
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal
The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
Stubborn.
Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.
Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.
noun
A fake company used as a front in espionage.
Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — being of the nature of a notion or concept
- conceptional
- ideational
adjective — indulging in or influenced by fancy
adjective — not based on fact or investigation
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal
WiktionaryThe idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
WiktionaryHe was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory.
WiktionaryNumerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
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