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stint

1  [stint]
Use stint in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
2. Archaic. to cease action; desist.
–verb (used with object)
3. to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
4. Archaic. to bring to an end; check.
–noun
5. a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.
6. an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one's daily stint.
7. limitation or restriction, esp. as to amount: to give without stint.
8. a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one's stint.
9. Obsolete. a pause; halt.
Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) ME stinten, OE styntan to make blunt, dull; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; c. ON stytta to shorten; cf. stunt 1

Related forms:
stint⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
stint⋅ed⋅ness, noun
stinter, noun
stint⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
stintless, adjective

Synonyms:
3. confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion.
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stint

2  [stint] ,
–noun
any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME stynte < ?
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stint 1   (stĭnt)   
v.   stint·ed, stint·ing, stints

v.   tr.

  1. To restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with.

  2. Archaic To cause to stop.

v.   intr.

  1. To subsist on a meager allowance; be frugal.

  2. Archaic To stop or desist.

n.  

  1. A length of time spent in a particular way: a two-year stint in the military.

  2. A fixed amount or share of work allotted. See Synonyms at task.

  3. A limitation or restriction: working without stint.


[Middle English stinten, to cease, from Old English styntan, to blunt.]
stint'er n., stint'ing·ly adv.
stint 2   (stĭnt)   
n.  Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions.

[Middle English stint, from Old English.]
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Word Origin & History

stint  (v.)
"to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal," O.E. styntan "to blunt, make dull," from P.Gmc. *stuntijanan (cf. O.N. stuttr "short, scant," M.H.G. stunz "blunt, short," Ger. stutzen "to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate"), from PIE base *(s)teu- "to beat, strike, push, thrust" (see steep (adj.)). The noun is attested from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: stint
variant of STENT
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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