noun
definition
A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
definition
A meagre allowance of money or wages.
definition
A small amount.
Examples of pittance in a Sentence
A million might look like a pittance.
They were paid a pittance for lace made by the yard, .
People earning a pittance will take years just to save this small amount.
At the moment I get a pittance for pay yet I pay an immense amount of council tax.
Put them in to poor accommodation and gave them a miserable pittance to try and feed and clothe themselves.
He learned and practised several small handicrafts, and devoting his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description earned a pittance by teaching.
Amnestied in 1755 he returned to France, but soon sank into dire poverty, being forced to earn a pittance for his wife and family as a day labourer.
The old man left but a pittance; and of that pittance almost the whole was appropriated to the support of his widow.
Indeed the work which obtains the scanty pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.
By the side of the door to the court is a little hatch through which the daily pittance of food was supplied, so contrived by turning at an angle in the wall that no one could either look in or look out.
What she recalled was a pittance of what she had known as a goddess.
The icicles are prison bars on our windows, trapping us, prisoners to this life of sin and degradation, giving miners a few minutes of pleasure for the pittance of coins it takes them weeks to earn in the bowels of the earth, performing unspeakable labors for the wealth of others.
Chinese or Indian or Bolivian workers receive a pittance in wages.
Wardle received a small remuneration from the RCA, a mere pittance considering the work he did for the Association.
Result - a small pittance after the council had taken its cut for unpaid nursing care.
Was Danny Crow really not worth a chance on the back of relegation, especially given his relative pittance of a salary?
The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil.
In this they were not successful; but a government stipend of 200 thalers was given him, and even this miserable pittance was of great importance, so straitened were his circumstances.
Now they are paid a tiny pittance to grow luxury goods for export to rich westerners.
When, on the other hand, the objects of science are properly described as phenomena, what is meant is not this pittance of sensible appearances, but positive facts of all kinds, whether perceptible or imperceptible, whether capable of being experienced or of being inferred from, but beyond, experience, e.g.
Added to that was Fred's frequent lies about picking up at tag sales for a pittance, items that to an observant eye, still retained their much-higher new-store price.
He increased his scanty pittance by translation; in addition to some French novels, he rendered into German the Chaereas and Callirrhoe of Chariton, the Greek romance writer.