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: --
The younger generation works long days for a pittance, causing physical and mental weariness.
We cannot continue to spend a pittance fighting cancer and a fortune supporting tobacco.
Below these peaks are hundreds of novelists and writers, who give pleasure to thousands and who are paid a pittance in return.
Many thousands of men have lost their all and have gone for the small pittance which is paid to the soldier or the non-commissioned officer.
At the same time, many at the sharp end are living in near poverty on a pittance.
Are the profits amassed by western companies by making children under ten work in poor countries for a pittance clean money?
On the one hand, the amount collected from tolls is a mere pittance: on the other hand, the collection causes delay and disrupts the traffic.
It was pitiful to see her trying to do her best to manage on a mere pittance.
