meagre allowance

collocation in English

meaningsofmeagreandallowance

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meagre
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.ɡər/us
/ˈmiː.ɡɚ/
(of amounts or numbers) very small or ...
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allowance
noun
uk
/əˈlaʊ.əns/us
/əˈlaʊ.əns/
money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a ...
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(Definition ofmeagreandallowancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ameagreallowanceof £31,000 to cover 170,000 airmen is incredibly low.
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This even is a verymeagreallowance, which only reckons for five one-man range-finders per battalion.
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I should like to mention the plight of many widows who have to live on a verymeagreallowance.
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What are the reasons for thismeagreallowance?
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The very fact that the wife without a child has ameagreallowancemeans that she has no protection.
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The present system provides ameagreallowance.
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His father made him ameagreallowance, and he was heavily encumbered with debt.
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It seems to me all wrong that these meagre allowances should be paid in this way.
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These are very meagre allowances, and it is extremely hard for some of these people to keep going.
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Men injured in the course of their employment have, because of the meagre allowances, in thousands of cases to resort to public assistance.
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They should be free from living upon relatives, free from continuous inquisitions and inquiries, free from struggling on meagre allowances.
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But he is also given much too meagre allowances for replacements of machinery.
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Knowledge is now spreading in the community of the stoppages made from these men's pay, and of the meagre allowances to the wife.
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Obtaining only meagre allowances, he had frequent recourse to his friends, constantly borrowing money and still going hungry for days at a time; he learned that his daughter had died.
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