nominal

nominally | Business English

nominally
adverb
uk /ˈnɒmɪnəli/us
according to what something or someone is said to be, although they are not actually that thing:
He remains nominally in charge, but because he has no access to the factory he has almost nothing to do.
The charity was, at least nominally, supervised by the government.
ECONOMICS
used when talking about prices or rates that are correct at the present time but do not show the effect of inflation:
assets nominally valued at about $120 billion

Examples of nominally

nominally
In the wider context of the decade this was a disturbing threat to a nominally ordered society.
Despite their waning interest in genuine political reform, however, donors have continued to insist on nominally democratic systems.
Nominally a city from 1540, possessing its own judicial sessions from 1618, it nevertheless lacked proper corporate government throughout this period.
Individuals or families could actually or nominally hold estates and exercise fiscal and administrative control over them.
In all experiments intercropping treatment plots (nominally 2r10 m) were replicated in four randomized blocks.
Admittedly most of these ' parentless ' children would - nominally at least - be under the charge of town-dwelling relatives.
The chassis must also have sufficient clearance between the rover body and the ground (nominally 0.31 m).
Conceivably, this could mean that two interpreters nominally interpreting the same object could actually be working from two quite different sets of data.
A nominally free press is harassed in myriad ways, and the government retains a radio monopoly.
Only when she moved out of the military community to go to a public high school, nominally integrated, did she experience real discrimination.
In this work, we performed the integration using a nominally second-order time accurate predictor-corrector scheme.
Nominally, the measurement cycle involves taking a panoramic survey and measurement of environmental parameters.
The air in the test section was nominally at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Though termed 'protectorates' and still nominally under their own rulers, these states were in effect governed as colonies.
But across all age groups, expository texts are nominally denser than narratives, and hence more complex linguistically and informatively richer.
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