stint

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stint

She completed her two-hour stint at the information desk.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A fixed or limited period of work or activity: A specific, often assigned, amount of time spent doing a particular job or task.
    • A person's allotted share of work: A specific amount of work one is expected to complete.
    • (Ornithology) A small sandpiper: A type of small shorebird, specifically the smallest American sandpiper.

  2. Verb:

    • To be sparing or frugal; to restrict in amount or quantity: To provide or use something in very limited amounts.
    • To subsist on a meager allowance: To live or manage with very little.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • She completed her two-year stint as a volunteer teacher.
    • He did his daily stint in the kitchen, washing all the dishes.
    • A flock of stints was feeding along the shoreline.

  • Verb:

    • The company had to stint on office supplies during the budget crisis.
    • They stinted themselves on food to save money for the trip.
Advanced Usage
  • "without stint": Without any limit or restriction; generously or fully.
    • She praised his work without stint.
  • "to stint on": To use an insufficient amount of something; to be overly frugal with.
    • Don't stint on the spices; the recipe needs flavor.
Variants and Related Words
  • Stinting (adj.): Sparing or restrictive in providing.
    • He was stinting in his praise for the project.
  • Unstinting (adj.): Given or giving generously and without restraint.
    • We are grateful for her unstinting support.
Synonyms
  • Noun (period of work): Spell, stretch, turn, assignment.
  • Verb (restrict): Skimp, scrimp, economize, limit.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms
  • "to do one's stint": To complete one's assigned portion of work or duty.
    • Everyone has to do their stint on the night shift.
stint

She completed her two-hour stint at the information desk.

Noun
  1. an individual's prescribed share of work
    • her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
  2. smallest American sandpiper
  3. an unbroken period of time during which you do something
    • there were stretches of boredom
    • he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
Verb
  1. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
    • sting with the allowance
  2. subsist on a meager allowance
    • scratch and scrimp

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