Preposition: of

• wage: This entire process ensured maximum employment at, I am sure, a pittance of a wage.

• food: Indeed the work which obtains the scanty pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.

Converse of object

• earn: People earning a pittance will take years just to save this small amount.

• compare: It was costing a mere pittance compared with some other ill-fated government-aided schemes, e.g. The foolish Greenwich Dome!

• pay: They were paid a pittance for lace made by the yard, .

• receive: Chinese or Indian or Bolivian workers receive a pittance in wages.

• get: At the moment I get a pittance for pay yet I pay an immense amount of council tax.

• cost: Suzuki Swift: Tiny revolution It looks like the Mini's little brother, bristles with technology and costs a pittance.

Adjective modifier

• mere: Wardle received a small remuneration from the RCA, a mere pittance considering the work he did for the Association.

• miserable: Put them in to poor accommodation and gave them a miserable pittance to try and feed and clothe themselves.

• small: Result - a small pittance after the council had taken its cut for unpaid nursing care.

• relative: Was Danny Crow really not worth a chance on the back of relegation, especially given his relative pittance of a salary?

• scanty: Indeed the work which obtains the scanty pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.

Modifies a noun

• wage: I only wish we had been given ' middle-class ' values, instead of simple working-class ones i.e. to work hard for pittance wages.

Preposition: in

• wage: Chinese or Indian or Bolivian workers receive a pittance in wages.