stintnoun [ C ]
uk/stɪnt/us/stɪnt/a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity:
He has just finished a stint of compulsory military service.
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
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Periods of time - general words
- age
- at/in one sitting idiom
- day
- duration
- free time
- gap
- interval
- length
- lifetime
- making
- me time
- rest
- run
- shortly
- slot
- span
- spasm
- spell
- stretch
- term
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stintverb [ I or T, usually in negatives ]
uk/stɪnt/us/stɪnt/to provide, take, or use only a small amount of something:
The bride's parents did not stint on the champagne - there was plenty for everyone.
Don't stint yourself - take another slice of cake.
See also
unstinting
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Self-control and moderation
- be in command (of yourself) idiom
- collect
- command
- constraint
- continent
- cut your coat according to your cloth idiom
- decorous
- dignified
- grip
- impervious
- lightly
- mind over matter idiom
- moderation
- moderation in all things idiom
- monastic
- restrict
- restrict yourself to sth
- rise above sth
- self-controlled
- self-denial
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