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pittance

/pit-ns/US // ˈpɪt ns //UK // (ˈpɪtəns) //

小钱,微薄的费用,一小笔钱,少量的钱

Related Words

trifle小事一桩,琐事,小事,区区小事drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴trace痕迹,追踪,跟踪,踪迹scrap废料,废钢,废弃的,废弃的东西ration定额,口粮,配给,配额inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够insufficiency不足,不充分,不够用,不充足modicum谦虚,谦逊,谦卑,谦和portion部分,一部分,份额,部分内容pension养老金,退休金,养恤金,抚恤金bit位,位数,比特,位元mite螨虫,螨类,螨,蚂蚁smidgen微量级,微量,少许,少量的dribble滴水不漏,淌水,滴水穿石,滴水成河allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助peanuts花生,花生米chicken feed鸡饲料,鸡肉饲料,鸡的饲料,养鸡场drop in the bucket倾盆大雨,斗筲之物,斗筲箕,漏斗

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small amount or share.
    • : a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses.
    • : a scanty income or remuneration.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsmall amount
Synonyms
allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助bit位,位数,比特,位元dribble滴水不漏,淌水,滴水穿石,滴水成河drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够insufficiency不足,不充分,不够用,不充足mite螨虫,螨类,螨,蚂蚁modicum谦虚,谦逊,谦卑,谦和peanuts花生,花生米pension养老金,退休金,养恤金,抚恤金portion部分,一部分,份额,部分内容ration定额,口粮,配给,配额scrap废料,废钢,废弃的,废弃的东西smidgen微量级,微量,少许,少量的trace痕迹,追踪,跟踪,踪迹trifle小事一桩,琐事,小事,区区小事chicken feed鸡饲料,鸡肉饲料,鸡的饲料,养鸡场drop in the bucket倾盆大雨,斗筲之物,斗筲箕,漏斗slave wages奴隶工资,奴隶制工资,奴役工资,奴隶制的工资

Examples

  • 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.

  • ProPublica 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.

  • Musicians, 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.

  • 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.

  • In 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.

  • Fire officers appreciate that the amount of burning witnessed in recent years is a pittance compared to what is required.

  • These immigrants are often employed illegally (but also legally) for a pittance, working in factories or as fruit pickers.

  • Robert 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.

  • What man would even lose the smallest of his joints for such a trifling pittance?

  • “Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.

  • It is well known that these are eaten raw: but after so many labours, so various and so rude, the pittance was meagre.

  • We deemed death as welcome in one shape as in another, and relinquished our labors and our pittance of food together.

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