The phrase "an empty word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a term or expression that lacks meaning or significance, often in discussions about language or communication.
Example: "In the debate, he dismissed her argument as just an empty word, lacking any real substance or evidence."
Alternatives: "a meaningless term" or "a hollow expression".
They talk about bi-partisanship but that's an empty word, doesn't mean a thing.
In X Factor, TalkTalkTV is not a product, it's just an empty word, a benefactor floating in space.
As for Purnell's intervention, they say that his claim that "empowerment" had become an empty word because politicians don't mean it is at the heart of what is wrong with Labour.
For it guaranteed to them the real possibility of utilising their abilities, putting as it did in the hands of labour all those material goods (buildings for meetings, printing presses and so on) lacking which "liberty" remains an empty word and an illusion.
Without a fixed-line parent to distract it, Orange has made the case for mobile telephony as a replacement for the "tethered telephone".At the same time, it has created a textbook lesson in how to fill an empty word with the meaning and values you want ("the future is Orange").
A new president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was elected in February but the state is mostly just an empty word outside Bangui, where armed groups and bandits prey on civilians, transporters and their own communities, extorting taxes, kidnapping people and livestock, and launching sporadic killing sprees.
A statement on the Web site of Radical Unity said that "it is not up to us to condone or excuse his act, but simply to assure him, in his present distress, that comradeship is not, for us, a empty word".
He typically opens a blank project, much like an empty word-processing document, sets up tracks — to add a bass guitar, a snare drum, a synthesizer, an electric guitar — and then composes a beat with all the instruments.
Then, the second stage will use an additional and empty word table (clustering table) to run a clustering procedure in one thread on the current sequence group, and at the same time the remaining T−1 threads will run multiple checking procedures on the remaining sequences.
"That's all empty words," Li said.
What girl power was to the 90s, empowerment has become to the 2010s: a catch-all and therefore empty word denoting a watered-down feminism, one beloved of bubbly celebrities and canny advertisers alike.
