Usually means: Insufficient, scanty, limited in quantity.
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  1. meagre: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meagre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meagre: Collins English Dictionary
  4. meagre: Vocabulary.com
  5. Meagre, meagre: Wordnik
  6. meagre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. meagre: Wiktionary
  8. Meagre, meagre: Dictionary.com
  9. Meagre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Meagre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. meagre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. meagre: Rhymezone
  13. Meagre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. meagre: Free Dictionary
  15. meagre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. meagre: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. meagre: Legal dictionary

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  1. meagre: Encyclopedia

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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meagre: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. meagre: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
adjective:  Having little flesh; lean; thin.
adjective:  Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
adjective:  (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
verb:  (transitive) To make lean.

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