pittance
a small amount or share.
a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses.
a scanty income or remuneration.
Origin of pittance
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Texas lawmakers work part-time, and they are paid a pittance — $7,200 a year plus a $221 per diem when the legislature is in session — so most lawmakers have to have another job to make ends meet.
The GOP voting bill that literally caused Texas Democrats to flee the state, explained | Ian Millhiser | July 13, 2021 | VoxProPublica has published an article, based on a vast trove of never-before-seen IRS information, that reveals the pittance in taxes the ultrawealthy pay compared with their massive wealth accumulation.
You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire | by Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Jesse Eisinger | June 8, 2021 | ProPublicaMusicians, who could leverage the platform to make far more than the per-stream pittance they get from the Spotifys of the world.
Tech giants that earn billions of dollars in major economies but pay only a relative pittance in taxes are among the biggest targets.
The low cash price would value their shares and options at a pittance, dashing their expectations of a windfall.
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances | by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke | September 30, 2020 | ProPublica
In 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 | THE DAILY BEASTIn budgetary terms, it was a pittance: 0.1 percent of the CDC's $2.2 billion allocation.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTFire 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 | THE DAILY BEASTThese 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 | THE DAILY BEASTRobert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinWhat man would even lose the smallest of his joints for such a trifling pittance?
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) | Elliott Coues“Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry WoodIt is well known that these are eaten raw: but after so many labours, so various and so rude, the pittance was meagre.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoWe deemed death as welcome in one shape as in another, and relinquished our labors and our pittance of food together.
British Dictionary definitions for pittance
/ (ˈpɪtəns) /
a small amount or portion, esp a meagre allowance of money
Origin of pittance
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