Meagre used in a sentence

Meagre in a sentence as an adjective

Oh, OK: consider a small insurance company in Kansas which collects a meagre $20 million in premium income per year.

The article states: > Aerospace engineer M. Frank Rudy, who sold “Air” to Nike, was\n > awarded a royalty of around a single percentage point...\n\nI'm thinking Rudy's done pretty well on a meagre one percent.

I simply never enter into such an arrangement, nor does the thought realistically warrant consideration - I might lose my home and the few meagre possessions I have - along with an enjoyable lifestyle - if I screw up.

In today's world of opportunity, there are multitudes of ways to run a business that doesn't destroy your life to make a meagre profit... if you persist in running an unprofitable business which takes all your time, then, I guess that would also fall under "incompetent"...

The rational response to concerns about crippling fees is to choose an account without a minimum balance or with low overdraft fees, or preferably no overdraft facility at all. Sure, people living on a financial edge are often less well-informed than the general public when it comes to understanding fees, but it's probably rare for the optimal solution to be paying 2%[1] of your meagre income to the nice guys at RiteCheck, or 20% if you've cashed a bad cheque in the recent past... or eye-wateringly high fees if you actually need to borrow some money

I was in a similar situation to the OP about ten years ago - 21 years old, very little experience, first technical employee at a company founded by two doctors, low pay, meagre equity given my responsibilities - and honestly, in retrospect I think they should have taken on a full-fledged technical co-founder with more experience and full equity instead of me. I did pretty well on the technical side, all things considered, but I didn't have the knowledge, confidence, and authority to assert myself when the founders pushed the product in unmarketable and technically unrealistic directions.