stint
stinted; stints; stinting
The noun stint means a set amount of time in which you do something — often work of some sort. "She served a stint in the army, followed by a stint in an office setting, before settling on a career as a lounge singer."
Unlike a project or vocation, a stint can refer to the stretch of time spent doing a particular job. You apply for a job, but you refer to your past stint in the Peace Corps. As a verb, stint means to be sparing or frugal, or restrict in a stingy manner ("to skimp"). "The school board chose to make cuts at the administrative level, rather than stint on the children's education."
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supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
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subsist on a meager allowance
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an unbroken period of time during which you do something
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synonyms:
stretch
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continuance, duration
the period of time during which something continues
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continuance, duration
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an individual's prescribed share of work
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smallest American sandpiper
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synonyms:
Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper
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sandpiper
any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
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sandpiper
Vocabulary lists containing stint
This list of warm-up words features common words on the test that you're probably familiar with. Brush up on these words first to make sure that you start off strong while taking the GRE.
In this fifth and final book of the series The Trials of Apollo, Lester must defeat Nero without causing massive collateral damage to Manhattan.
Twelve-year old Lucy Everhart learns to overcome grief by studying sharks during a research project at Cape Cod.
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