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Meaning of 名存实亡

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
míng cún shí wáng (Trad.: 名存實亡)
the name remains, but the reality is gone (idiom)
Example Sentences
1
ALREADY divorced in all but name, this weekend tiny Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
2
Hayya said the PLO was dead, sent to the morgue by those who founded it.
3
"It is not a good way to treat people, " he said, "to leave them in limbo with no actual job."
4
Is the highest of managerial arts - or sciences, if you prefer - dead, as some allege?
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Yamoussoukro is the capital in name only and doesn't actually have any embassies or state institutions.