token payment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

token payment
    n 1: a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "token payment":
      bail, bond, earnest, earnest money, escrow, gage, handsel, hock,
      hostage, mainprise, pawn, pignus, pledge, recognizance, replevin,
      replevy, surety, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium