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STINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An individual's prescribed share of work
Example:
her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Smallest American sandpiper
Synonyms:
Erolia minutilla; least sandpiper; stint
Classified under:
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 unbroken period of time during which you do something
Example:
he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
Synonyms:
stint; stretch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("stint" is a kind of...):
continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they stint ... he / she / it stints
Past simple: stinted
Past participle: stinted
-ing form: stinting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Example:
stint with the allowance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Subsist on a meager allowance
Example:
scratch and scrimp
Synonyms:
scrimp; skimp; stint
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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)
