stint

Meaning

Verb

1. To stop (an action); cease, desist.
2. (obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. To be sparing or mean.
4. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
5. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
6. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Noun

1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Noun

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Noun

Misspelling of stent (medical device).

Synonyms

skimp

scant

limit

task

restriction

period

confine

limitation

grudge

restraint

reduce

least sandpiper

restrict

stretch

constraint

sandpiper

scrimp

season

constrict

job

abridge

Erolia minutilla

age

chore

curbing

curtail

cut down

day

duress

economize

epoch

halt

hour

labor

labour

localise

localize

mete

minimize

parry

patch

stop

🛑

phase

profession

purview

quite

rather

reasonably

restrain

shift

shorten

sidestep

space

sparing

spell

stage

stingy

straiten

temporal

term

tide

time

⌚

time period

turn

work

working time

feel weak

knock it off

scotch

be mean

be stingy towards

eat delicacy 3

deny someone

be frugal

employment

Terminus

penny-pinch

give an assignment

hand out an assignment

pause

contain

act

allowance

ambit

appointment

assignment

be exhausted

border

bound

bourn

bourne

cease

ceiling

cherish

circumscribe

circumscription

clocking

conceive

confinement

constrain

containment

cramp

crib

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɪnt/

Etymology

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).