stint

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To be sparing or mean

The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling
Common misspelling of stent
To stop (an action); cease, desist

O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife .

To stop speaking or talking (of a subject)

Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf.

A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell

He had a stint in jail.

{v} to bound, limit, fix, restrain, confine
{n} a bound, limit, restraint, proportion, part
Misspelling of stent
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
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted
subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
A phalarope
{i} fixed amount of work; period of time; limitation, restriction
Called also pume
To put an end to; to stop
{f} restrict, limit, economize, skimp; be frugal
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
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
To serve successfully; to get with foal; said of mares
Limit; bound; restraint; extent
To stop; to cease
smallest American sandpiper
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance
To assign a certain i
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance
A stint
pume
stinted
past of stint
stinter
{i} one who limits, one who restricts
stinter
an economizer who stints someone with something
stinter
One who, or that which, stints
stinting
avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
stinting
present participle of stint
stints
third-person singular of stint
stints
plural of , stint
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