noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
earn
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In the process, the landless poor, whose numbers grow every day, try to earn a pittance .
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By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals, she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends.
pay
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At the other end of the business, the actual drivers get paid a pittance out of what is left over.
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He only pays me a pittance .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the poorest parts of the country, children work 12-hour days for a mere pittance .
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Smith's salary is a mere pittance compared with others in the NBA.
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They expect their staff to work hard, but the wages they pay are a pittance .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds.
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He only pays me a pittance .
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He would merely do the job and get a pittance .
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I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
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If she was so genteel, she wouldn't have come here for the pittance she's paid.
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Jack's only complaint was that the pittance he was paid hardly reflected the responsibility placed upon him.
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No more than a pittance , really, and it made me glad to think about his disappointment.
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You should be prepared to work very hard for a pittance .