meagre in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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meagre in the PONS Dictionary

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Most of the 15,000 inhabitants earned meagre incomes as mining workers and rubber tappers.
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Today, only the house's cellars and drains survive, along with some meagre sections of its masonry walls.
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The government ordered a prohibition referendum, that ended with a meagre majority for the opposition.
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The artists took pupils in order to augment their meagre income.
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At this time he was solely dependent on the meagre wages of his brother.
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It prescribed hard manual labour, silence, a meagre diet, isolation from the world, and renunciation of most studies.
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The village fields meagre yields spurred many men to find other work when industrialization began to make itself felt.
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In the waning days of her life, she was completely dependent on the service of the attendants for a meagre meal and glass of water.
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The rational numbers, while dense in the real numbers, are meagre as a subset of the reals.
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The inhabitants fed themselves for generations with the products of their own farming, which was done on meagre bunter.
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