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pittance <a pittance; pittances> N

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Often the excess must be sold for a pittance and used for industrial alcohol production rather than wine.
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However, in around 50% of cases, the chief wage-earner was employed in regular work, but paid mere pittance, unable to sustain a healthy level of living.
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The workers were paid a pittance for their labour, and were expected to work in often awful and harsh conditions.
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Much of the land was bought from the owners of large farms and sugar cane plantations, who were paid a pittance for their homes and given twenty-four hours to evacuate.
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Why do they agree to act for a relative pittance?
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He came to believe that under capitalism most people could never attain his privileges and were compelled to sell their labour for a pittance to industrialists and landowners.
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According to the official rules, the prize for winning the contest is a pittance.
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He learned and practiced several small handicrafts, and devoting his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description and earned a pittance by teaching.
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He knows there's a vein of gold underneath the homesteaders' property, and he offers out of the kindness of his heart to purchase their land for a pittance.
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He was ultimately unable to receive even this pittance, with his employer pleading poverty.
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