stint

Definition of stint

Verbs

subsist on a meager allowance
Synonyms:
scrimp, skimp
Type of:
save
spend less; buy at a reduced price
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Synonyms:
scant, skimp
Type of:
furnish, provide, render, supply
give something useful or necessary to

Nouns

an unbroken period of time during which you do something
Synonyms:
stretch
Type of:
continuance, duration
the period of time during which something continues
smallest American sandpiper
Synonyms:
Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper
Type of:
sandpiper
any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
an individual's prescribed share of work
"her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
Type of:
chore, job, task
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

Vocabulary Lists for stint

GRE Super 4800 Plus »(4851 words)
  • abase
  • abash
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abdicate

Sophocles's Oedipus the King »(656 words)
  • suppliant
  • adjure
  • woe
  • slay
  • suborn

S-list »(402 words)
  • saccharine
  • sacred cow
  • saddle
  • salacious
  • sallow

Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" Chapters 1-12 »(287 words)
Vocabulary study list for Charles Dickens' "A Tale of...
  • incommodious
  • cogitate
  • endue
  • immolate
  • commiserate

GRE High Frequency Words »(420 words)
  • abate
  • aberrant
  • abeyance
  • abscond
  • abstemious

My_words_s »(43 words)
  • relinquish
  • lucid
  • debacle
  • preclude
  • maverick

GRE words »(500 words)
  • accrue
  • adamant
  • admonitory
  • perspicacious
  • sapient

The Book of Air and Shadows »(199 words)
A selection of words I encountered while reading...
  • abash
  • abscond
  • acedia
  • acerbity
  • acme

Words that contain stint

stinter
 stinting
 unstinted
 unstinting
 unstintingly