[usuallysing.] a very small amount of money that sb receives, for example as a wage, and that is hardly enough to live on:
to pay sb a pittance * to work for a pittance * She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, pittance is tagged as noun.
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