STINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stint mean? 

• STINT (noun)
  The noun STINT has 3 senses:

1. an unbroken period of time during which you do something

2. smallest American sandpiper

3. an individual's prescribed share of work

  Familiarity information: STINT used as a noun is uncommon.

• STINT (verb)
  The verb STINT has 2 senses:

1. subsist on a meager allowance

2. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

  Familiarity information: STINT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unbroken period of time during which you do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

stint; stretch

Context example:

he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary

Hypernyms ("stint" is a kind of...):

continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Smallest American sandpiper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Erolia minutilla; least sandpiper; stint

Hypernyms ("stint" is a kind of...):

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Holonyms ("stint" is a member of...):

Erolia; genus Erolia (a genus of Scolopacidae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An individual's prescribed share of work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her

Hypernyms ("stint" is a kind of...):

chore; job; task (a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee)

• STINT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stint    ... he / she / it stints   
Past simple: stinted   
Past participle: stinted   
-ing form: stinting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subsist on a meager allowance

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

scrimp; skimp; stint

Context example:

scratch and scrimp

Hypernyms (to "stint" is one way to...):

save (spend less; buy at a reduced price)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s on something

Derivation:

stinter (an economizer who stints someone with something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

scant; skimp; stint

Context example:

stint with the allowance

Hypernyms (to "stint" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

stinter (an economizer who stints someone with something)

 Context examples 

The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nature had surely formed her in a partial mood; and, forgetting her usual stinted step-mother dole of gifts, had endowed this, her darling, with a grand-dame's bounty.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here first, after the meagre fare of Beaulieu and the stinted board of the Lady Loring, Alleyne learned the lengths to which luxury and refinement might be pushed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not stinted.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)