chickenfeednoun [ U ]
uk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn.fiːd/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn.fiːd/informala small and not important amount of money:
They're losing $200,000 on this deal, but that's chickenfeed to/for a company with yearly profits of $25 million.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Small amounts of money
- a drop in the ocean idiom
- bagatelle
- drop
- microcredit
- miserly
- not a red cent idiom
- paltry
- peanut
- pennyworth
- pittance
- pocket money
- princely
- red
- sou
- trifling