Definition of Stint

1. Verb. Subsist on a meager allowance. "Scratch and scrimp"

Exact synonyms: Scrimp, Skimp
Generic synonyms: Save
Derivative terms: Stinter

2. Noun. An unbroken period of time during which you do something. "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
Exact synonyms: Stretch
Generic synonyms: Continuance, Duration

3. Verb. Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. "Sting with the allowance"
Exact synonyms: Scant, Skimp
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Stinter

4. Noun. Smallest American sandpiper.
Exact synonyms: Erolia Minutilla, Least 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"
Generic synonyms: Chore, Job, Task

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

stinkless
stinko
stinkpot
stinkpots
stinks
stinks on ice
stinkstone
stinkstones
stinkt
stinkweed
stinkweeds
stinkwood
stinkwoods
stinky
stinky squid
stint (current term)
stintance
stinted
stintedness
stinter
stinters
stintier
stintiest
stinting
stintings
stintless
stints
stinty
stip
stipa

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