The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
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He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory.2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
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Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
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Business, Finance Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.2009 March 11, “Gold inches up on bargain hunt, ETF hits record”, in Ninemsn:
Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.2009 March 3, “Harvard Accepts Higher Debt Costs as Bankers Profit”, in Bloomberg:
She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.1995, Walter D. Edmonds, In the Hands of the Senecas, page 137:
Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.2012, Joseph C. Goulden, Peter Earnest, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak Into English, page 157: