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Pittance 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 4

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Pittance 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 4

Pittance 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 4

/ˈpɪt.ənts/ US /ˈpɪţ-/ (noun)

a very small amount of money, particularly as your salary or income, nominal sum of money, inadequate amount of money, next to nothing, nothing, subsistence wage, small change, nickels and dimes, trifle, chicken feed

One court has recognized that: “Common knowledge of the occupations in the lives of men and women teach us that there is scarcely any kind of disability that prevents them from following some vocation or other, except in cases of complete mental incapacity. Although the achievements of disabled persons have been remarkable, we will not adopt a strict, literal construction of such a provision which would deny benefits to the disabled if he should engage in some minimal occupation, such as selling peanuts or pencils, which would yield only a pittance. The insured is not to be deemed “able” merely because it is shown that he could perform some task.”

Source: https://www.floridainsuranceblog.com/

Antonym: fortune


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