0 a very small amount of money, especially money received as payment, income, or a present:
2 a very small amount of money, especially money received as income:
Today, runners are paid a pittance by comparison, not even enough to support themselves.
There is precise information about the celebration of the anniversaries of founders and benefactors throughout the year, with appropriate pittances and almsgiving.
The services which can be run on this pittance are minimal and generally fall down in terms of distribution.
Less developed countries produce mainly agricultural products, at a pittance, for consumption by the rich world.
For that we received a miserable pittance, and those were the conditions under private enterprise.
Many of them are getting such a miserable pittance that it means actual starvation.
Take the case of the ill-paid workman with his miserable pittance of approved benefit.
It was pitiful to see her trying to do her best to manage on a mere pittance.
