pittance of wages

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• pittance — [n] small amount allowance, bit, chicken feed*, dribble*, drop*, drop in the bucket*, inadequacy, insufficiency, mite, modicum, peanuts*, pension, portion, ration, scrap*, slave wages*, smidgen, trace, trifle; concepts 344,787 Ant. generosity,… …   New thesaurus

• pittance — pit|tance [ˈpıtəns] n [singular] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: pitance piety, pity , from Latin pietas; PITY1] a very small amount of money, especially wages, that is less than someone needs or deserves earn/be paid a pittance ▪ The… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• pittance — noun a) A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal. So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it …   Wiktionary

• pittance — noun the musicians were paid a pittance Syn: a tiny amount, next to nothing, very little; informal peanuts, chicken feed, slave wages, chump change …   Thesaurus of popular words

• pittance — Synonyms and related words: ace, alms, alms fee, atom, bit, charity, collection, contribution, dab, dole, donation, donative, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half… …   Moby Thesaurus

• pittance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) , n. bit, mite, driblet; dole; pension, alms, allowance. See insufficiency. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wage, pension, pay; see allowance 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. *chicken feed, *drop in the… …   English dictionary for students

• pittance — n 1. allowance, subsistence allowance, subsidy, maintenance, living expenses; pin or pocket money, expenses, expense account, per diem, viaticum; allotment, ration, quota, stint; stipend, grant, fellowship, scholarship, subvention; annuity,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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