Definitions for pittance

pittance pit·tance

Spelling: [pit-ns]
IPA: /ˈpɪt ns/

Pittance is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in pittance (aceinptt).

Definitions for pittance

noun

  1. a small amount or share.
  2. a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses.
  3. a scanty income or remuneration.

Origin of pittance

1175-1225; Middle English pitaunce Old French pitance, variant of pietance piety, pity, allowance of food (in a monastery). See pity, -ance

Examples for pittance

Fire officers appreciate that the amount of burning witnessed in recent years is a pittance compared to what is required.

What with Paliser Place, its upkeep and the rest of it, it must be a pittance.

These immigrants are often employed illegally (but also legally) for a pittance, working in factories or as fruit pickers.

In budgetary terms, it was a pittance: 0.1 percent of the CDC's $2.2 billion allocation.

A pittance of money is obtained, and then they search for a man.

The thought of going back to a pittance a year sickened him.

One as rich as he is known to be will not object to a pittance like that.

Despite powering the country's economic growth, they receive a pittance of the proceeds.

In other words, overtime amounts to only pittance of the overall pay — about $6.50 a week on top of wages of $1,000 a week.

"You'll go on here to the end of your days, working for a pittance," he objected.

Word Value for pittance
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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