stint

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stint1

▶verb [often with neg.] be restrictive or ungenerous towards or in the supply of.

■ (stint on) be restrictive or frugal in acquiring or providing: he doesn't stint on wining and dining.

▶noun

• 1 an allotted period of work.

• 2 limitation of supply or effort.

– origin OE styntan ‘make blunt’, of Gmc origin; rel. to stunt1.

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stint2

▶noun a very small short-legged northern sandpiper. [Calidris minuta (little stint) and related species.]

– origin ME: of unknown origin.