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stint
1[ stint ]
verb (used without object)
- to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance:
Don't stint on the food.
They stinted for years in order to save money.
- Archaic. to cease action; desist.
verb (used with object)
noun
- a period of time spent doing something:
a two-year stint in the army.
- an allotted amount or piece of work:
to do one's daily stint.
- limitation or restriction, especially as to amount:
to give without stint.
Synonyms: tour of duty, tour, term, shift
- a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.:
to exceed one's stint.
- Obsolete. a pause; halt.
stint
2[ stint ]
noun
- any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper.
stint
1/ stɪnt /
verb
- to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something)
- archaic.to stop or check (something)
noun
- an allotted or fixed amount of work
- a limitation or check
- obsolete.a pause or stoppage
stint
2/ stɪnt /
noun
- any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia ), such as C. minuta ( little stint )
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Derived Forms
- ˈstinter, noun
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Other Words From
- stinted·ly adverb
- stinted·ness noun
- stinter noun
- stinting·ly adverb
- stintless adjective
- un·stinted adjective
- un·stinting adjective
- un·stinting·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
After a stint with a replacement Head Mistress went sour, R seriously considered shutting down La Domaine for good.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.
He said he prefers to forget about his 18-month stint with the Railroad Commission.
After a brief stint under house arrest, Al-Thani was back on the art scene within a year, this time only as a private collector.
In 2010, President Obama then brought her back for a second stint.
For days after his departure, she had kept solitary; busied with little; indulging in her own sad reflections without stint.
No small stint I had of it too; for he was peevish and touchy as a young badger.
All day without stint and all night long with the sweep of the hissing drift.
In a country where money was all-powerful the power of money was used without stint and without scruple.
I didn't stint myself; but a single glass makes one bad enough, so half a bottle was saved every day.
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