Advanced and Proficiency Vocabulary for Exams(e.g.GRE, Banks, Civil Services, SAT / LSAT). For IELTS/TOEFL, and everyday spoken vocabulary, go to our Spoken Vocabulary Database.
Meaning
a small amount of money
- How to Memorize
- pittance - small
- Analysis
If you say that the money you received was only a ‘pittance’, then you are saying that it was a very small amount, and certainly, less than you feel you need and deserve. Can be used for effect.
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- Example(s)
The restaurant only pay me a pittance. I make most of my money from tips.
You’re earning fifty thousand a year, so stop complaining. It’s hardly a pittance, is it?
The market was saturated, so in the end we had to sell our crops for a pittance.
