stint

IPA: stˈɪnt

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Misspelling of stent (medical device). [A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.]

(archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
(obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
(transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
(of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Examples of "stint" in Sentences

Why do you stint anyways
He stints to earn more money.
She used to stint but not anymore.
Does she stint to raise her child
No one knew she was stinting her money.
They wree told to stint whatever they have.
He became rich because he stints his money.
The boss told his laborers to stint materials.
The purpose of stinting differs from people to people.
The enigmatic Stoughton had an up and down stint in the WHA.
And the best of the grub was not good, while we went on stint from the start.
This guest posting stint is very strange: I am simply unused to the idea of reading so many positive comments about Matt Yglesias on this blog. shawn Says:
The last time I worked with Rick Sanchez, during a fill-in stint he did on American Morning, he stood next to my desk for a few minutes and groused about the way CNN covered news.
Persons in positions of authority don't seem to possess much more experience in education, never having taught or perhaps only going through a short-term stint that they knew was going to end from the start.