A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place. He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong. Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions. a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity stint in/at. to provide or use too little of something stint on
limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent
an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance