PGNAME OF A THINGofficially described as being something, when this is not really true 名义上
a nominally Christian country
名义上信奉基督教的国家
He was nominally in charge of his father’s printing company.
他名义上掌管着父亲的印刷公司。
Examples from the Corpus
nominally• With the values of C1 and R1 specified, the time taken to do this is nominally 24 hours.• The Grunwick dispute is still nominallydragging on.• Eighty percent of the population is nominallyHindu.• She is the formal head of the Executive and it is, nominally, in her courts that her justice is administered.• Iwan Granoogst, appointed by Shankar as Bouterse's interimsuccessor, was nominally the leader of the Dec. 24 coup.• Even some 22 percent of nominallywedded black couples actually live apart.