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Meaning stint meaning

What does stint mean?

stint

— noun an individual's prescribed share of work her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her — verb supply sparingly and with restricted quantities sting with the allowance — verb (= scrimp) subsist on a meager allowance scratch and scrimp — noun (= least sandpiper) smallest American sandpiper — noun (= stretch) an unbroken period of time during which you do something there were stretches of boredom he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary

Synonyms stint synonyms

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stint English » English

skimp scant task limit restriction period limitation confine restrict restraint reduce least sandpiper grudge stretch season scrimp sandpiper job constrict constraint chore age abridge Erolia minutilla working time work turn time period time tide term temporal straiten stop stingy stage spell sparing space sidestep shorten shift scotch restrain reasonably rather quite purview profession phase

Topics stint topics

What do people use stint to talk about?
States Quantity Plural

Few, little

Conjugation stint conjugation

How do you conjugate stint?

stint · verb

Examples stint examples

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Simple sentences

Tom turned his life around after a stint in rehab.
In some larger cities, people must stint on food and clothing in order to make rent or mortgage payments.

Movie subtitles

My hand did not stint in the application of the sugar.
Yes sir, I was in New Guinea for a stint. I got wounded there.
Did my stint in the fields before breakfast.
Not that we stint ourselves.
You fit for another stint?
All right, Frank, did your research reveal that I did a stint with the marines and reupped?
Mr Applebottom, I was wondering whether I could have a temporary arrangement with your good lady. I only need her for a very short stint.
Then a short stint as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo.
After my stint with the Living Theater I was one of New York's leading paranormal researchers until the bottom dropped out in '72.
After a stint in the Marines he became fascinated by communism.
Yes, I look forward to your stint in housekeeping.
Did it pull you out of a thirty-year stint in five years?
You feel you deserve to die and you stint on nothing.
Don't stint on review copies.
Stint not the silks and velvets - give them all to the poor folk.
A long, long list. Don't stint.
Stint not, brother.
Stint not. Give.
A messy stint in a country road, the disposal of a body in a muddy field. And still he manages to turn up to the house minutes later so immaculately dressed?
Levin did a stint researching hypnotic regression at Cologne.
As a matter of fact, after my stint in the navy, I spent a year as a crane operator.
Right. Our correspondent, Charles Jackal, Who is rejoining us after a stint at the Betty Ford clinic, kicks off our team coverage.
That didn't take long. This could be the shortest command stint in history.
Let me guess. He was an average student, he did an average stint in the military.
Drink, mum, don't think that I stint on it.
A messy stint in a country road, the disposal of a body in a muddy field.
This could be the shortest command stint in history.
When we're thru with this stint, I'll help you to find her. Your Katrina.
During your entire stint as a he-whore. did you have sex with anyone?
A little stint in the poky, show her the error of her ways.
How about a stint on a school ship?
Just exactly how damaging to your skills. is this prison stint likely to be?

News and current affairs

Her first stint as prime minister (1988-90) was brief and disorganized.
Few cases are as clear-cut as that of Anneli Jaatteenmaki, whose short-lived stint as Finland's first woman prime minister recently came to an end.
Since Abe returned last December for a second stint as Prime Minister, Japanese voters have entrusted him with maintaining political stability and ensuring economic revitalization.
That is far from a foregone conclusion in Azerbaijan, where the last stint in power by some of the opposition leaders in 1992-1993 still evokes bitter memories of a time of war and crisis that few can recall without horror.

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