Stint

Definition: Stint

Stint

Noun

1. An unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary".

2. Smallest American sandpiper.

3. An individuals prescribed share of work: "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her".

Verb

1. Scratch and scrimp.

2. Supply sparingly, with a meager allowance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Stint \Stint\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Stinted; Stinting.]. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stint

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Insufficiency

Render insufficient; Adjective:; drain of resources, impoverish; (waste); stint; (begrudge); put on short allowance.

Noun: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence; (impotence); deficiency; (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness; (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence.

Limit

Noun: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods.

Parsimony

Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

Noun: parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; Adjective: stint; illiberality, tenacity.

Sufficiency

Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.

Adverb: sufficiently, amply; Adjective:; full; in abundance; n. with no sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.

Crosswords: Stint

German (smelt, Sparling).

Books

• A Stint With the U. S. Air Force: Experiences of a 4-F Sergeant in World War II (reference)

• Ten year stint (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "stint": do one's stint ♦ stint oneself ♦ with no stint ♦ without stint. Additional references.

Beginning with "stint": stint-type.

Albanian

kufizoj (circumscribe, confine, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrain, restrict, specialize, straiten, terminate, tie, truncate), kufizim (cramp, limitation, narrowness, qualification, reservation, reserve, restraint, stricture), kufi (abutment, ambit, border, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, ceiling, compass, demarcation, division, edge, end, frontier, hedge, line, margin, Mark, measure, mete, radius, razor edge, terminus). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهمة (assignment, business, charge, commission, designation, duty, errand, function, job, mission, office, place, task, undertaking, work), ‏مقطوعية العمل, ‏قتر (scant, scrimp, skimp), ‏أدى عمله اليومي, ‏أدى عمله, ‏بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scant, scrimp, skimp, spare, stinginess). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпя се (pinch, screw, scrimp, skimp), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), възложена работа (commission), възлагам работа на, ограничаване (abridgement, immurement, limitation, qualification, repression, restraint, retrenchment, stricture), ограничавам се (confine). (various references)

Chinese 

限制 (Confine, Confined, Confining, constraint, CONSTRAINTS, limiting, Stinted, stinting). (various references)

Czech

skrblit (scrimp), penzum (quota), přídìl (allocation, allowance, portion, ration), omezovat (bound, delimit, hedge around, hold back, inhibit, tie down), mez (border, bound, boundary, bounds, country lane, Lane, limit, pale, termination), hranice (bonfire, border, borderline, bound, boundary, confines, frontier, limit, line, pile, precinct, stake), úkol (assignment, job, labor, labour, mission, objective, part, target, task, undertaking). (various references)

Dutch

taak (assigned job, job, task). (various references)

Farsi 

محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Confine, Cramp, Curb, Dam, Gag, Impale, Limit, Narrow, Qualify, Quantify, Restrict, Straiten, Terminate), مضایقه کردن (Begrudge, Spare), کم دادن (Scant, Skimp), ازروی للامت دادن , بقناعت واداشتن . (various references)

Finnish

urakka (contract). (various references)

French

ration de travail, mission, lésiner sur qch., choque, besogne assignée, être chiche. (various references)

German

sparen (conserve, economize, economize on, make savings, save, save up, saving, scrimp, skimp, spare), umschränken (to stint), teil (appanage, area, bit, chapter, component, deal, district, part, Parthian, partial, particle, partition, parts, party, piece, portion, proportion, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, spare, spare part, stretch, tract, unit), knausern (be mean, be stingy, pinch, scrape, skimp), kargen (be grudging, be mean, be stingy, scrimp, scrimp and save), Gedingesoll, einschränken (confine, cut back, cut down, impinge, limit, moderate, narrow down, pare down, qualify, reduce, restrain, restrict, retrench, to retrench, to stint), beschränken (bound, confine, constrict, limit, narrow down, restrict, straiten, tether, to bound, to stint), aufgabe (abandonment, assigned job, assignment, business, checking in, discontinuation, dispatch, dropping, duty, exercise, function, giving up, homework, insertion, job, labor, labour, mailing, mission, placing, problem, purpose, question, registration, release, relinquishment, remit, renouncement, renunciation, retirement, serve, service, surrender, task, vacation, work), arbeit (assigned job, chore, employment, job, labor, labour, paper, piece of work, pile, project, script, task, test, work, working), anteil (allotment, concern, contribution, cut, interest, interesting, part, Parthian, piece, portion, proportion, quantity, quota, share, stake, stock, sympathy). (various references)

Greek 

τσιγκουνεύομαι (be stingy, skimp). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכס�" (allocation, amount, lag, norm, quantity, quota, valuation, worth), לקמץ (be miserly, be stingy, economize, retrench, scant, scrimp, skimp), לחסוך (economize, put away, put by, save, spare, withhold), תפקי�" (assignment, charge, command, duty, function, mission, order, part, place, role, task). (various references)

Hungarian

megszorítás (crunch, limitation, restraint, restriction, squeeze, stipulation, stringency, wring), korlátozás (abridgement, abridgment, circumscription, coercion, confinement, crunch, cutback, delimination, limit, limitation, qualification, qualifier, restraint, restriction, retrenchment, squeeze), előírt munkafeladat. (various references)

Italian

tenere a stecchetto, restrizione (astriction, bar, qualification, reservation, restraint, restriction), limite (bar, border, borderline, bound, boundary, confines, end, extent, limit, pale, range, tether, verge), limitare (abridge, bound, confine, curtail, cut down, limit, narrow, rein in, restrict, shrink, straiten, surround), lesinare (grudge, haggle, scrimp, skimp), lavoro (achievement, business, chore, employment, job, labor, labour, occupation, output, shop, task, work, working, yield), essere parsimonioso, compito (assigned, assigned job, assignment, charge, duty, exercise, homework, job, office, task, test). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惜しみ無く (freely, without stint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしみなく (freely, without stint). (various references)

Manx

shayll (bout of work, innings, piece of work, rotating, share, spell, trick, turn), mooaraghey (begrudging, covet, grudge), garrey (bout of work, gallop, impetus, lap, rubber, spell, trick, turn). (various references)

Pig Latin

intstay.(various references)

Portuguese

tarefa (assigned job, assignment, job, labor, labour, task), restrição (astriction, barrier, bridle, check, cramp, limitation, qualification, reservation, reserve), limite (abutment, border, borderland, bound, boundary, bourne, cincture, circumscription, compasses, frontier, limitation, mark, measure, mere, mete, pale, prompt, purview, terminal, termination, verge, windup), limitação (accouchement, barrier, bond, calaboose, circumscription, confinement, cramp, curb, limitation, narrowness, prison, qualification, reservation, reserve, restraint, restriction, retrenchment). (various references)

Romanian

restricţie (reservation, reserve, restraint, restriction), restrângere (confinement, restriction), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stop, unbend, weaken), preget (cessation), obligaţie (bond, business, commitment, duty, imposition, indebtedness, liability, obligation, onus, part, pledge, plight, recognizance, servitude, task), limitare (abridgement, abridgment, confinement, finitess, limitation, narrow mindedness, restriction), impune restricţii la, hotar (border, bound, boundary, bounds, bourn, Bourne, coast, confine, confines, edge, end, extremity, frontier, limit, line, Marge, margin, mete, pale, terminus, verge). (various references)

Russian 

ограничение (abridgment, circumscription, constraint, delimitation, limitation, qualifications, restraint, restriction, smallness, soft pedal, swaddling clothes), ограничивать ограничение, ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, confine, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, narrow, pinch, qualify, restrain, restrict, scanting, scrimp, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, straiten, terminate), предел (ambit, bound, butting, circumference, confine, deadline, flash point, limit, measure, precinct, scope, term, tether, threshold). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rad koji treba završiti u, ograničiti (confine, constrain, delimit, delimitate, limit, localise, localize, repress, restrict, tie up), ograničenje (circumscription, confinement, constraint, delimitation, limitation, qualification, restraint, restriction, stricture). (various references)

Spanish

tarea suelta (tender, undertaking), limitar (abridge, confine, keep down, limit, pale, qualify, restrict, tie, tie down, wind down), limitación (abridgement, abridgment, limitation, restriction, shortcoming), escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, cut down, give grudgingly, grudge, pinch, scant, scrimp, skimp, spare), destajo (contract, job, tender). (various references)

Swedish

snåla med (scrimp, skimp, skimp on). (various references)

Turkish

sınır (border, borderland, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, circumscription, compass, confine, deadline, extreme, extremity, frontier, limit, limitation, line of demarcation, March, pale, purlieu, skirting, verge, watershed), mahrum etmek (abridge, con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, shear, spoil, starve), limit (boundary, cutoff, limit), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kısıtlamak (bound, circumscribe, clip one's wings, constrict, cramp, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, inhibit, limit, qualify, restrain, restrict, tie down), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), had (boundary, extremity, limit, limitation, measure), görev (appointment, assignment, billet, business, charge, commission, devoir, duty, employment, function, incumbency, job, mission, office, part, piece of work, position, service, situation, task, work, workings), esirgemek (begrudge smb. smth., grudge, spare, withhold), az vermek (scrimp, skimp), ölçü (dimension, dimensions, extent, foot rule, gauge, measure, measurement, meter, metre, prosody, scale, size, standard, test). (various references)

Ukrainian

обмежувати (abridge, astrict, bail, bound, circumscribe, confine, cramp, enclose, limit, narrow, pinch on, restrain, restrict, straiten, terminate), обмеження (abridgement, abridgment, circumscription, confinement, corslet, cramp, derogation, limitation, qualification, restraint, restriction, swaddling clothes), нормована праця, порція (allowance, batch, helping, order, portion, serving), давати норму. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự không l� m hết sức mình phần việc, sự hạn chế cung cấp, sự hạn chế cố gắng. (various references)

Welsh

cybydda (hoard), crintachu (scrimp, skimp). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stint": stinted, stinter, stinters, stinting, stints. (additional references)

Words containing "stint": unstinted, unstinting, unstintingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estant, Mstind, satient, scint, sgint, shint, siint, sint, Slint, snitt, sqint, stict, stin, stinc, stinct, stinn, stinti, stinx, stiny, stit, stnin, stunto, stunty, styn, styne, Ts'in. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tints.

-1 letter: nits, snit, tins, tint.

-2 letters: ins, its, nit, sin, sit, tin, tis.

-3 letters: in, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: sitten, stints, stotin, taints, tanist, tincts, titans.

+2 letters: attains, dentist, distant, distent, entwist, instant, instate, intents, intorts, intrust, intuits, intwist, kittens, lattins, mattins, mittens, nitwits, retints, satinet, setting, sitting, smitten, stating, station, stinted, stinter, tanists, tasting, tennist, tensity, testing, tiniest, tinters, titians, toniest, transit, tritons, twinset, untwist.

+3 letters: anisette, antirust, antismut, antistat, antsiest, astatine, attaints, battings, bitterns, bittings, botanist, catmints, centrist, citterns, cuttings, dentists, dinettes, distinct, entastic, entities, entitles, entwists, estating, existent, extincts, faintest, fistnote, fitments, fittings, gitterns, hesitant, insetted, insetter, instants, instated, instates, instinct, instruct, interest, intimist, intitles, intrants, intreats, introits, intrusts, intwists, jettison, jottings, knitters, lintiest, lutanist, lutenist, mattings, mintiest, minutest, nastiest, nativist, nattiest, naturist, nepotist, nettiest, nettings, nictates, niftiest, nitrates, nitrites, nittiest, noisette, nutsiest, nuttiest, nuttings, nystatin, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, pantsuit, patients, pettings, pittings, quintets, runtiest, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, scatting, sentient, settings, settling, shotting, shutting, sittings, slatting, slitting, slotting, smutting, snottier, snottily, spatting, spitting, spittoon, spotting, stannite, starting, stations, stenotic, sternite, stetting, stibnite, stiction, stilting, stinkpot, stinters, stinting, stoniest, stotinka, stotinki, stotinov, straiten, strident, strontia, strontic, stunting, swatting, swotting, tactions, tangiest, tanistry, tattings, tawniest, teeniest, tennists, tenorist, tentiest, teosinte, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, thinnest, tightens, tinniest, tinnitus, tinsmith, tinstone, tintings, tintless, tintypes, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanous, tithings, titrants, toasting, tonetics, tonights, tontines, tortonis, transits, transmit, tridents, trientes, trinkets, tritones, trusting, trysting, tuitions, tungstic, turnspit, twenties, twiniest, twinjets, twinsets, twisting, unitrust, unstitch, untwists, visitant, wettings, wittings.