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Definition of Stint
1. Verb. Subsist on a meager allowance. "Scratch and scrimp"
2. Noun. An unbroken period of time during which you do something. "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
3. Verb. Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. "Sting with the allowance"
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Stinter
4. Noun. Smallest American sandpiper.
Generic synonyms: Sandpiper
Group relationships: Erolia, Genus Erolia
5. Noun. An individual's prescribed share of work. "Her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
Definition of Stint
1. n. Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
2. v. t. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
3. v. i. To stop; to cease.
4. n. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
Definition of Stint
1. Noun. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell. ¹
2. Verb. (archaic intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject). ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean. ¹
5. Noun. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus ''Calidris''. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling. ¹
6. Noun. (medicine) (misspelling of stent) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stint
1. to limit [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: limit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stint
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