stint

[ US /ˈstɪnt/ ]
[ UK /stˈɪnt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an individual's prescribed share of work
    her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
  2. smallest American sandpiper
  3. an unbroken period of time during which you do something
    there were stretches of boredom
    he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
VERB
  1. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
    stint with the allowance
  2. subsist on a meager allowance
    scratch and scrimp
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How To Use stint In A Sentence

  • She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on. Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
  • First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
  • Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
  • After a brief spell/stint in the army, he started working as a teacher.
  • I look for people who have done four or five-year stints. Times, Sunday Times
  • O feto, apesar de estar a desenvolver-se dentro do corpo da mae, e 'um corpo, uma vida distinta numa relacao de simbiose com o corpo da mae para se poder desenvolver. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Thoughts on Abortion A Few Days Before Law Approval
  • I look for people who have done four or five-year stints. Times, Sunday Times
  • This enabled him to make contacts, as did a stint as an independent scout. Times, Sunday Times
  • The teammate then moves to the top of the circular banked track and coasts while he recovers for his next stint.
  • But both were destroyed after he ended his three-year stint as a search and rescue chopper pilot last week. The Sun
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