Main entry: stint
Definition: an individual's prescribed share of work
Usage: her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
Main entry: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint
Definition: smallest American sandpiper
Definition: an unbroken period of time during which you do something
Usage: there were stretches of boredom; he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
Main entry: scant, skimp, stint
Definition: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Usage: sting with the allowance
Main entry: skimp, scrimp, stint
Definition: subsist on a meager allowance
Usage: scratch and scrimp