Definition of stint Stint

/stɪˈnt/ - [stint] - stint

We found 23 definitions of stint from 5 different sources.

What does stint mean?

Noun Plural: stints
stint - an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
stint - smallest American sandpiper
		least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla
		sandpiper any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
stint - an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
		stretch
Verb stints, stinting, stinted
stint - supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
		skimp, scant
		furnish, supply, provide, render provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"
stint - subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
		scrimp, skimp
		save make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"

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stint (Noun)
A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
stint (Noun)
limit; bound; restraint; extent.
stint (Noun)
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
stint (Noun)
Any of several very small wading bird s in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
stint (Verb)
To stop an action; cease, desist.
stint (Verb)
To stop speaking or talking of a subject.
stint (Verb)
To be sparing or mean.

stint (n.)
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
stint (n.)
A phalarope.
stint (v. t.)
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
stint (v. t.)
To put an end to; to stop.
stint (v. t.)
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
stint (v. t.)
To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
stint (v. i.)
To stop; to cease.
stint (v. t.)
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
stint (v. t.)
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

stint
stint, v.t. to shorten: to limit: to restrain.—v.i. to cease, stop: to be saving.—n. limit: restraint, restriction: proportion allotted, fixed amount: one of several species of sandpiper, the dunlin.—adj. Stint′ed, limited.—ns. Stint′edness; Stint′er.—adv. Stint′ingly.—adjs. Stint′less; Stint′y. [A.S. styntan—stunt, stupid.]

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stint in sign language