meagre income
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeagreandincome
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meagre
adjective
uk/ˈmiː.ɡər/us/ˈmiː.ɡɚ/
(of amounts or numbers) very small or ...
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income
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪŋ.kʌm/us/ˈɪn.kʌm/
money that is earned from doing work or received ...
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(Definition ofmeagreandincomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet he was almost certainly hugely grateful that such an opportunity allowed him to supplement his otherwisemeagreincome.
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For pensioners in particular, the licence fee is a large portion of theirmeagreincome.
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Pensioners spend a greater proportion of theirmeagreincomeon goods and services, on which inflation is higher.
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From thatmeagreincomehe has to find rent in many cases.
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They supplemented theirmeagreincomewith home-grown food.
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These widows have to pay the full insurance charges out of theirmeagreincome.
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Let us take a married couple—pensioners on ameagreincome—who have to pay 20 per cent, of an average community charge of something like £370 each.
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What deductions can be made from themeagreincomesupport that she is receiving?
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They are easily dazzled by high rates of interest; and who can blame them, especially if they want to supplement ameagreincome?
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If they do not, one fifth of their extremelymeagreincomeof £42 per week will be docked.
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On thismeagreincomein the year 1971–72 she was paying tax at the rate of £1 a week.
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Such people pay no tax whatever although they may top up theirmeagreincomewith income from savings invested one way or another.
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When she goes out to work, she has to get in another woman to look after the children and to pay that woman out of themeagreincomeshe gets.
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Not only is it understandably repugnant to many of these people to seek this help, but in any case it provides merely themeagreincomenecessary for survival.
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The presentmeagreincomelimit is causing very great hardship and very great ill-feeling, among admittedly a minority of the population, but they should not be disregarded on that account.
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Out of thatmeagreincomehe must pay, as a result of the cuts in housing benefit, £5·70 rent per week, although his sole income is unemployment benefit.
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It is a bizarre morality that claims that society needs to provide incentives for the rich by paying them more and incentives for the poor by cutting theirmeagreincome.
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Among the most important factors in divorce are poverty and the intolerable strains imposed by separation and the attempt to keep a family together on ameagreincome.
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