Pay Lip Service To Somebody/something - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 pay lip service to somebody/something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpay lip service to somebody/somethingpay lip service to somebody/somethingPRETENDto say that you support or agree with something without doing anything to prove it  organizations that pay lip service to career development lip serviceExamples from the Corpuspay lip service to somebody/somethingThe professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.Politicians pay lip service to crime.We need to stop paying lip service to them.They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement. Exercises Exercises
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