0 to say that you agree with something but do nothing to support it:
1 to publicly support or approve of something, while actually taking no action to produce it:
The methods for gene expression analyses are subsequently detailed mainly for this type of design, although lip service is paid to alternative methods.
In reality only lip service is paid to these effects by most workers.
Paying lip service to or totally ignoring mathematics became a widespread attitude in (nongenetic) structuralism.
Egyptological writing occasionally still pays lip service to the idea of an age of the earth measured in thousands of years.
Let us now pay more than lip service to this premise, and analyse the environmental structures that make heuristics more or less useful.
This is the meaning of pay in the expressions pay homage, pay lip service and pay attention.
This is often perceived as mere lip service to the sacred law, but it is a necessary element in combining the two systems.
Others may give lip service to religions because it is to their advantage to do so.
