Look up: stint

1. stint
   to be thrifty to set limits 
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2. stint
   [n] - an individuals prescribed share of work 2. [v] - supply sparingly, with a meager allowance
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3. Stint
   Stint noun (Zoology) (a) 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. Called also pume . (b) A phalarope.
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4. Stint
   Stint transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stinted ; present participle & verbal noun Stinting .] [ Middle English stinten , stenten , stunten , to cause to ...
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5. Stint
   Stint intransitive verb To stop; to cease. [ Archaic] « They can not stint till no thing be left.» Chaucer. « And stint thou too, I pray thee.» Shak. « The damsel stinted in her song.» Sir W. Scott.
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6. Stint
   Stint noun [ Also written stent . See Stint , transitive verb ] 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent. « God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.» South. ...
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7. stint
   <zoology> 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. ... Synonym: pume. ... A phalarope. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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8. stint
   noun an individuals prescribed share of work; `her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her`
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9. stint
   verb supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; `sting with the allowance`
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10. Stint
    • (v. i.) To stop; to cease. • (v. t.) To assign a certain (i. e., 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. • (v. t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. • (n.) A phalarop...
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11. stint
    stint 1. A fixed period of time spent on a task or job: 'She had to do a two-year stint as an apprentice in her new job.' 2. An individual's prescribed share of work: 'Her stint as a nanny prepared her for motherhood.' 3. A imitation or restriction; especially, in time or amount. 4. An unbroken p...
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12. Stint
    A `stint` is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage - often separated in Erolia -, which in North America are known as `peeps`. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers. Som...
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