stint

About 0.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To stop (an action); cease, desist.
2. verb To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. verb To be sparing or mean.

   The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

4. verb To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
5. verb 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.
6. verb To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
7. noun A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

   He had a stint in jail.

8. noun Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Similar words

stretch scant scrimp skimp erolia minutilla least sandpiper stay restrict subsistence pass

Often followed by

in as at of with on or and the

Word family

stent stinted stinter stinters stinting stints