Definizione monolingua

stint

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:

     O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife [...].

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
   • Late C14, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklins Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf

3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

   The next party you throw, dont stint on the beer.

stint (plural stints)

1. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

   He had a stint in jail.

Definizione dizionario stint

compito

lavoro

lesinare

limitare

limite

periodo

restringere

restrizione

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

(obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

any of several very small wading birds

(medicine) Common misspelling of stent.

(archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

To be sparing or mean