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marginal

adj. of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"

marginal

adj. producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"

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spare, scanty, bare, scant

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

exiguous

adj. extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

measly, miserable, paltry

adj. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

lean

adj. not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"

profitless, unremunerative

adj. not yielding profit or recompense; "an unremunerative occupation"

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