pittance
a very small payment or wage
TRANSLATION
der Hungerlohn, milde Gabe
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Station Commander Danny Ricketts explained his reasons for joining the industrial action: "I'm on strike to support my colleagues," he said, "particularly my younger colleagues who can't afford to live in the area that they work.
"They're having to travel in a lot of miles and they're paid a PITTANCE. All we're striking for is to get fair pay for the future."
(BBC News - Feb. 20th 2002)
"They're having to travel in a lot of miles and they're paid a PITTANCE. All we're striking for is to get fair pay for the future."
(BBC News - Feb. 20th 2002)
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pittance
1. A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration.
2. A very small amount
Origin: Middle English pitance, from Old French, allowance of food to a monk or poor person, from Medieval Latin pietantia, from *pietns, *pietant- present participle of *pietre, to show compassion, from Latin piets, piety.
Synonyms:
chicken feed, dribble, driblet, drop, inadequacy, insufficiency, mite, modicum, peanuts, portion, ration, scrap, slave wages, smidgen, trace, trifle
pittance
1. A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration.
2. A very small amount
Origin: Middle English pitance, from Old French, allowance of food to a monk or poor person, from Medieval Latin pietantia, from *pietns, *pietant- present participle of *pietre, to show compassion, from Latin piets, piety.
Synonyms:
chicken feed, dribble, driblet, drop, inadequacy, insufficiency, mite, modicum, peanuts, portion, ration, scrap, slave wages, smidgen, trace, trifle
