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pittance
[ pit-ns ]
noun
- a small amount or share.
- a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses.
- a scanty income or remuneration.
pittance
/ ˈpɪtəns /
noun
- a small amount or portion, esp a meagre allowance of money
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Origin of pittance1
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Example Sentences
In other words, overtime amounts to only pittance of the overall pay — about $6.50 a week on top of wages of $1,000 a week.
In budgetary terms, it was a pittance: 0.1 percent of the CDC's $2.2 billion allocation.
Despite powering the country's economic growth, they receive a pittance of the proceeds.
Fire officers appreciate that the amount of burning witnessed in recent years is a pittance compared to what is required.
These immigrants are often employed illegally (but also legally) for a pittance, working in factories or as fruit pickers.
Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
What man would even lose the smallest of his joints for such a trifling pittance?
“Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.
It is well known that these are eaten raw: but after so many labours, so various and so rude, the pittance was meagre.
We deemed death as welcome in one shape as in another, and relinquished our labors and our pittance of food together.
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