'meager earnings' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to describe a small or inadequate amount of money earned or received. For example, "Despite working two jobs, Paul's meager earnings were barely enough to cover his rent each month."
The success of Morgan's results as Shearson posted meager earnings reflects in large part the enormous profits Morgan has been earning through its merchant banking activities.
They could not have built the house with Mr. Bui's meager earnings, Ms. Nguyen said.
She continued to support her husband and daughter on her meager earnings as a writer.
Others returned, very often exchanging the ongoing indignities of a refugee camp for the meager earnings of a family farm.
The family lives, he says, off the meager earnings of his wife, who works in a kindergarten.
For Royal Dutch/Shell in the near future, he said, "we expect them to generate meager earnings growth".
The company warned investors two weeks ago that its first-quarter loss would be far bigger than analysts had forecast and revised its fiscal fourth-quarter 2003 earnings from a meager profit to a $1.04 billion loss.
Meanwhile, most wage earners saw meager pay gains as sluggish productivity growth and other factors, such as globalization, contributed to holding down earnings for lower-paying or routine jobs.
Expect the Giants to take advantage of their leverage and Cruz's meager career earnings in order to keep his new contract more line with Antonio Brown's deal ($41.96 million, 5-year extension, $8.5 million guaranteed) than Vincent Jackson's deal ($55,555,555 ,5 years, $26 million guaranteed).
Although Regions Financial reported meager profits Tuesday, the company knows it can't bank on earnings growth given the weak economic environment.
The surprise announcement comes after the company's earnings report in July, when it disappointed investors in reporting a profit of $12 million for the fourth quarter -- a meager profit wiped out by the announcement yesterday.
