as in dime
a very small sum of money
the internship offers only a pittance for a salary, but it is a great opportunity to gain experience
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Recent Examples of pittance
Trying to move in earlier to accommodate a pittance of an audience is mind boggling stupidity.
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Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
And the mitigation the Kraft Group is offering is a pittance of the amount the city should be getting for a 25,000 seat stadium.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Point is, why would Google want to sell access – literally the starting point to more than half the world’s population – for a pittance?
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
It was funded to the tune of the low-six figures, a pittance compared to hundreds of millions of dollars in annual Chinese spending on everything from buying broadcast spectrum to hiring up African journalists to hosting trips for global media.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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dime
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For example, a large, fully-laden ship can't stop on a dime.—
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Hamilton plays deep safety, nickel corner, dime linebacker and edge rusher.—
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“Pittance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pittance. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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