stint

Noun

• an individual's prescribed share of work
  • her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
    

• smallest American sandpiper

• an unbroken period of time during which you do something
  • there were stretches of boredom
    
  • he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
    

Verb

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  • sting with the allowance
    

• subsist on a meager allowance
  • scratch and scrimp
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  least sandpiper , Erolia minutilla , stretch , skimp , scant , scrimp