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What does nugatory mean?

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Adjective
  1. Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
  2. Ineffective, invalid or futile.
  3. (law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
  4. (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
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In Briscoe's case the court made the prohibition of bills of credit nugatory.
Given that I have also shown that its practical impact upon children's wellbeing is nugatory, there seems to be no satisfactory justification for its retention.
These aspects of military life do not, of course, render entirely nugatory in the military context the guarantees of the First Amendment.
They tell us plainly that resisting these illusions with truth renders them nugatory.
But the evaluation criteria are strictly defined so as to avoid rendering the right to family reunification nugatory.
This is at least, one supposes, predicated on the recognition that the Right's symbolic resources are pretty nugatory.

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