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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small amount |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bit, chicken feed, dribble, drop in the bucket, drop*, inadequacy, insufficiency, mite, modicum, peanuts, pension, portion, ration, scrap*, slave wages, smidgen, trace, trifle |
| Antonyms: | generosity, lot, plenty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allowance, allocation |
| Synonyms: | allotment, alms, apportionment, benefit, charity, dispensation, distribution, division, donation, gift, grant, gratuity, handout, living wage, mite, modicum, parcel, pittance, portion, quota, relief, share, subsistence, trifle |
| Main Entry: | donation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift |
| Synonyms: | a hand, aid, allowance, alms, appropriation, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, bequest, boon, charity, contribution, do one's part, dole, endowment, gifting, grant, gratuity, handout, help, helping hand largess, lump, offering, philanthropy, pittance, present, presentation, ration, relief, subscription, subsidy, subvention, write-off |
| Main Entry: | drop in the bucket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small amount |
| Synonyms: | band-aid, bit, cosmetic measure, disappointment, drop in the ocean, drop in the ocean, lick and a promise, miniscule amount, not enough, pittance, small amount, small change, small change, small potatoes, small potatoes, small quantity, speck, spit in the sea, too little too late, trifle, trivial amount |
| Main Entry: | gift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given freely, for no recompense |
| Synonyms: | allowance, alms, award, benefaction, benefit, bequest, bestowal, bonus, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, courtesy, dispensation, donation, endowment, fairing, favor, giveaway, goodie, grant, gratuity, hand, hand-me-down, handout, honorarium, lagniappe, largesse, legacy, libation, oblation, offering, offertory, philanthropy, pittance, premium, present, presentation, provision, ration, relief, remembrance, remittance, reward, souvenir, subscription, subsidy, tip, token, tribute, write-off |
| Antonyms: | forfeit, loss, penalty |
| Main Entry: | minimum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lowest amount |
| Synonyms: | atom, bottom, dab, depth, dot, gleam, grain, hair, iota, jot, least, lowest, margin, modicum, molecule, nadir, narrowest, particle, pittance, point, scintilla, scruple, shadow, slightest, smallest, smidgen, soupçon, spark, speck, trifle, whit |
| Antonyms: | largest, maximum, most |
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon, bread, commission, compensation, consideration, defrayment, emoluments, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, meed, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompensation, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, stipendium, take-home, takings, wage, wages |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | share |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | portion, allotment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, apportionment, bite, chunk, claim, commission, contribution, cut, cut in, cut up, divide, dividend, division, divvy, dose, drag*, due, end, fifty-fifty, fraction, fragment, halver, helping, heritage, interest, lagniappe, lot, measure, meed, parcel, part, partage, percentage, piece, pittance, plum, points, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, quotum, rake-off, ration, segment, serving, slice, split, stake, taste, whack |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chump change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small sum of money |
| Synonyms: | Mickey Mouse, chicken feed, nickels and dimes, paltry sum, peanuts, pittance, pocket money, small amount, small change, small potatoes, spending money |
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