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[ pit-ns ] / ˈpɪt ns / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pittance ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna small amount or share. a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses. a scanty income or remuneration. Origin of pittance1175–1225; Middle English pitaunce<Old French pitance, variant of pietance piety, pity, allowance of food (in a monastery). See pity, -ance Words nearby pittancepit stop, Pitt, pitta, pitta bread, Pittacus, pittance, pitted, pitted keratolysis, pitter-patter, pitting, pitting edema Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pittanceIn 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. The Administration's Thin Complaints About the Sequester|Megan McArdle|March 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST In budgetary terms, it was a pittance: 0.1 percent of the CDC's $2.2 billion allocation. The Reason for Our Woeful Lack of Gun Statistics|David Frum|December 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST Despite powering the country's economic growth, they receive a pittance of the proceeds. Ghosts in the Machine: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants and Their Uncertain Future|Ross Perlin|December 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST Fire officers appreciate that the amount of burning witnessed in recent years is a pittance compared to what is required. Colorado Blazes Remind Us That National Policy on Fire Needs a Fix|Stephen J. Pyne|June 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
These immigrants are often employed illegally (but also legally) for a pittance, working in factories or as fruit pickers. Missing Women Give Clues to Dead Body Found on Queen’s Estate|Charlotte Edwardes|January 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST It is well known that these are eaten raw; but after so many labors, so various and so rude, the pittance was meagre. We did our best to help them out of our own pittance; but to all of us it was like falling from affluence to penury. Hurricane Hurry|W.H.G. Kingston Neglecting all other affairs, he was content to live on a pittance, which he was enabled to do by a frugal and helpful wife. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6|Various Men lavished their thought, and men lavished their sweat for a pittance, upon this building. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll I made shirts for a pittance and daily refused, to me, fortunes for dishonor. Stories of the Railroad|John A. Hill
British Dictionary definitions for pittance
nouna small amount or portion, esp a meagre allowance of money Word Origin for pittanceC16: from Old French pietance ration, ultimately from Latin pietās duty Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to pittancetrifle, drop, trace, scrap, ration, inadequacy, insufficiency, modicum, portion, pension, bit, mite, smidgen, dribble, allowance, peanuts, chicken feed, drop in the bucket |