adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a meagre living British English , a meager living American English (= not much money )
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She earned a meagre living as a shop assistant.
meagre rations (= small rations )
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The prisoners were queuing for their meagre rations .
slim/lean/meagre pickings
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Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
earnings
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The Association was extremely successful in improving the lot of Bank Officials who previously had meagre earnings and poor conditions of employment.
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What did they do for their meagre earnings ?
income
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Most of its meagre income comes from donors.
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They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit.
ration
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When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even this meagre effort is a struggle.
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Government regulation offers a meagre defence against Hollywood.
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Local authorities across the country have therefore been unable, and unwilling, to part with their own meagre resources.
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One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit, tradition and nowhere else to go.
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The meagre little peelings falling from her knife into water eased her, their ordinariness was a link with real life.
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The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work.
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The recompense is meagre , but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
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This has ranged from a weekly average of just 3.7 complaints in Crook to an even more meagre 2.3 in Chester-le-Street.