different between pittance vs remuneration

English

Etymology

From Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *piet?ntia, from Latin piet?s (“piety”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t?ns/, [?p???n?s]
• Hyphenation: pit?tance

Noun

pittance (plural pittances)

1. A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
2. A meagre allowance of money or wages.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.

3. A small amount.

Translations

Derived terms

• pittancer

English

Etymology

From Latin rem?ner?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /r??mju?n??re???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /r??mju?n??re???n/, /??.mju?.n?.??e?.??n/

Noun

remuneration (countable and uncountable, plural remunerations)

1. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
2. A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
3. A recompense for a loss; compensation.

Synonyms

• reward
• recompense
• compensation
• pay
• payment
• repayment
• satisfaction
• requital

Related terms

• remunerability
• remunerable
• remunerably
• remunerate
• remunerative
• remunerator

Translations

Further reading

• remuneration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• remuneration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• renumeration