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What is a pittance?

What is a pittance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  2. A meagre allowance of money or wages.
  3. A small amount.
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Her husband, after incurring losses trying to run a business, is now employed in a private firm for a pittance.
We even pay taxes on most of our Social Security earnings, if our household income rises above a pittance.
I also knew that I could not be appeased with a pittance in dividends simply because everyone was focused on share price growth.
So I'll have at least a tiny pittance of spending money for a few days, before it runs out again.
They pay a pittance into the state pension system and then rob workers over company pension plans.
With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people?

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