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单词 chickenfeed
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chickenfeednoun [ U ]

uk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn.fiːd/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn.fiːd/informal

a small and not important amount of money:

They're losing $200,000 on this deal, but that's chickenfeed to/for a company with yearly profits of $25 million.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Small amounts of money

  • a drop in the ocean idiom
  • bagatelle
  • drop
  • microcredit
  • miserly
  • not a red cent idiom
  • paltry
  • peanut
  • pennyworth
  • pittance
  • pocket money
  • princely
  • red
  • sou
  • trifling

chickenfeednoun [ U ]

us/ˈtʃɪk·ənˌfid/slang

an amount of money that is so small in comparison with other amounts that it is unimportant and can be ignored:

They lost $200,000 on this deal, but that’s chickenfeed for a company that big.
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