单词	paltry
释义	paltrypal‧try /ˈpɔːltri $ ˈpɒːl-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINpaltry Origin: 1500-1600 paltry ‘worthless material’ (16-19 centuries) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES paltry excuses a paltry 1.2% growth rate Club owners in Kansas City paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work. Last year workers were offered a paltry raise of only one percent. Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when? But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence. But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering. But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum. Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-8848. Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent. Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatortoo little money► paltry : paltry sum/amount/pay/value etc such a small amount, sum etc that it is insulting to the people it is paid to: · Club owners in Kansas City paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work.· Last year workers were offered a paltry raise of only one percent.a paltry £1/$5 etc: · Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day. ► derisory formal, especially written a derisory amount of money that you are offered or paid is so small that it is not worth considering seriously: · Government increases in health expenditure are derisory.a derisory £10/$100/10% etc: · The company's profits increased 35%, but they've only offered a derisory 2.5% pay increase. ► pittance an extremely small amount of money, especially when you think the people who are being paid it are being treated unfairly: · They expect their staff to work hard, but the wages they pay are a pittance.a mere/absolute pittance: · In the poorest parts of the country, children work 12-hour days for a mere pittance. ► peanuts informal a surprisingly small amount of money - use this when you are comparing two prices or amounts: · The workers get paid peanuts.· He's got so much money, $500 is just peanuts to him. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► paltry sum  paltry sum of money COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► sum · Little of these paltry sums is likely to be new money, most being sliced off existing allocations.· But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.· That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum. 1a paltry amount of something is too small to be useful or important:  paltry sum of money He received only a paltry £25 a day.2 formal unimportant or worthless SYN  trivial:  paltry issues
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