pittance
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈpɪt̬əns/
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miseria
- My job provides me only a pittance each month, making it hard to pay my bills.
- more than a pittance
And that universal basic income will be a pittance.
- And that universal basic income will be a pittance.
- They was meant to care, giving them a pittance, running it all like that, a racket.
- So I mean ## through all that, throughout his life, you know, was lived on a pittance.
Examples
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The car had been confiscated from a drug dealer and was sold at auction for a pittance.
Fiction book (1994) -
A lifetime of drudgery on a pittance?
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A pittance to protect you from evil.
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OK, let's hire him for a pittance, which it was, and we'll give him a try.
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It's so cheap, you can live on a pittance.
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Other than the house, it paid little more than a pittance, but it kept a roof over their heads.
Fiction book (2000) -
Tomorrow is the day it will pay its workers their miserable weekly pittance.
Fiction book (1995) -
The US spends an exorbitant amount on its military and a pittance on programs that alleviate poverty.
Blog text (21) -
The fabric of society has eroded so much that a man like me has to bend the knee to the likes of him, all for a pittance.
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Now they receive R15,000 a year—a pittance considering the price of museum-quality contemporary art.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
8
8.2
A very small amount of money that hardly matters next to bigger costs
A very small amount that is not enough
A very small amount of money that is not worth much
A very small amount of money that is not worth much
A very small amount of money or something of little value
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pittance comes from an old word pitance for a small gift of food given out of 'piety' or 'pity' to the poor or to monks. So a pittance today means a very small, often unfair, amount of money or pay.