stint

Plural: stints

Noun

• an unbroken period of time during which you do something
• smallest American sandpiper
• an individual's prescribed share of work
  • "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
• A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
• Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
• Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
• A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
• Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
• Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).

Verb

Verb Forms: stinted, stinting, stints

• To restrict, limit, or be frugal with something.
• subsist on a meager allowance
• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
• To stop (an action); cease, desist.
• To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
• To be sparing or mean.
• To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
• To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
• To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Examples

• Don’t stint on using your power-ups in Words With Friends; they’re there to be used!
• He had a stint in jail.
• The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

Synonyms

Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, scant, scrimp, skimp, stretch, anchor, astand, blin, brake, cease, desist, draw up, grind to a halt, halt, hold, immobilize, leave off, rest, stall, stay, stint, stop, swike

Anagrams of stint