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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:

Nouns denoting animals

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) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

Example:

stint with the allowance

Synonyms:

scant; skimp; stint

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)

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