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chickenfeed

 
/ˈtʃɪk·ənˌfid/ n [U] slang

Definition

an amount of money that is so small in comparison with other amounts that it is unimportant and can be ignored: They lost $200,000 on this deal, but that’s chickenfeed for a company that big.
(Definition of chickenfeed n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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