LIP SERVICE


Meaning of LIP SERVICE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.

Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process.

Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.

Politicians pay lip service to crime.

Some made a good job of the sandwich element, but many paid it lip service .

That they were now even giving lip service to these ideas is significant.

They wonder if your support is mere lip service .

Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.

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