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pittance 音標拼音: [p'ɪtəns] n. 配給的食物,施舍少量的錢,少量 配給的食物,施捨少量的錢,少量 pittance n 1: an inadequate payment; " they work all day for a mere pittance" Pittance \ Pit" tance\ ( p[ i^] t" tans), n. [ OE. pitance, pitaunce, F. pitance; cf. It. pietanza, LL. pitancia, pittantia, pictantia; perh. fr. L. pietas pity, piety, or perhaps akin to E. petty. Cf. { Petty}, and { Pity}.] 1. An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole. " A good pitaunce." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] One half only of this pittance was ever given him in money. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation. " The small pittance of learning they received." -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 75 Moby Thesaurus words for " pittance": 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 rations, handful, handout, inadequacy, insufficiency, iota, jot, little, little bit, mere subsistence, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, offering, offertory, ounce, particle, peanuts, pebble, pinch, point, scrap, scrimption, scruple, shoestring, short allowance, short commons, small potatoes, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, starvation wages, subscription, thimbleful, tiny bit, tithe, tittle, trace, trifling amount, trivia, votive offering, whit
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