pittance

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They weren't insane; they spent on some stuff I thought was silly, but they also paid themselves a pittance.

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Quick take

an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pittance.

noun

an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

Example sentences

They weren't insane; they spent on some stuff I thought was silly, but they also paid themselves a pittance.

I'm not sure why you assume that removing the union will result in all pilots making a pittance.

You were paid pittance and employees outside cambridge were hardly recognized.

They get no advances, they get a pittance from royalties, and, contrary to popular opinion, they don't make a decent living from 2/3rds sold out club concerts.

The employees who took a pittance first-out-of-college salary are still getting paid that 3,4 and 5 years later -- but now many are married and quite a few are having kids.

" I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation.

That physical infrastructure should serve us for at least 100 years - we know how to send 10Gbps/100Gbps and more down the line and the expensive part is digging up yards/streets; the boxes on either end are a pittance by comparison.

And even though they might cost $100M and require $25M/year in maintenance, that was a pittance compared to training, equipping, and deploying a couple of armored divisions which could similarly level a city.