meagre salary
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meagre
adjective
uk/ˈmiː.ɡər/us/ˈmiː.ɡɚ/
(of amounts or numbers) very small or ...
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salary
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈsæl.ər.i/us/ˈsæl.ɚ.i/
a fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account ...
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(Definition ofmeagreandsalaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The other side of estimating her net earnings is how much she has to pay out of her verymeagresalaryor earnings for expenses.
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I could not have afforded the monthly payments out of mymeagresalary.
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The older people in the probation service very often have to keep their families; and the younger people do not want to be tied down by a verymeagresalary.
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Part of themeagresalarywas often used to pay fines.
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This left his wife to bring up alone his two children on ameagresalary.
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Later he became a ticket collector in a drama company for ameagresalary.
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Houghton's expenses were far beyond hismeagresalary.
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The larger the amount collected, the larger the amount that can supplement their own meagre salaries.
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It is costlier for another reason, that we are not satisfied with the meagre salaries they received at that time.
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I was very much surprised at the revelation of the meagre salaries that have been paid to some of them.
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Although it states that working conditions for drivers are unacceptable, it endorses their meagre salaries.
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Staff of the middle management and lower levels are paid meagre salaries to do crucial processing as part of important public service work.
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Doctors are not paid for their medicines, and the result is that the cost has to be paid out of their meagre salaries.
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Then we have the school teachers, who, up to the time of the 1918 scheme, used to contribute to their own pensions out of their then very meagre salaries.
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