0 something, especially an amount of money, that is small and not important:
1 a game played on a board with holes, in which small balls are hit towards the holes
The machine tools required for this programme are really a bagatelle compared with our capacity to produce.
I would like to point out that that sum is a mere bagatelle of the whole revenue.
If the problem is not going to be faced in that way, transference is a mere bagatelle, scarcely worth a second thought.
I refer to the bagatelle of £30,000 thrown to the fishing industry.
I think that is a mere bagatelle when you consider that in this country we have a population of over 45,000,000 persons.
They may get involved in expenditure in respect of drains or roofs which makes the initial expenditure a mere bagatelle.
To him the expenditure of taxpayers' money is nothing—a mere bagatelle.
He cannot say that the £150 million in this company is a bagatelle or a trinket.
