Synonyms: stint
Definition: an individual's prescribed share of work
Usage: her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
Similar words: task, job, chore
Definition: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Usage: estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars; the job of repairing the engine took several hours; the endless task of classifying the samples; the farmer's morning chores
Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint
Definition: smallest American sandpiper
Similar words: sandpiper
Definition: any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
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
Similar words: continuance, duration
Definition: the period of time during which something continues
Definition: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Usage: sting with the allowance
Similar words: supply, render, provide, furnish
Definition: give something useful or necessary to
Usage: We provided the room with an electrical heater
Synonyms: skimp, scrimp, stint
Definition: subsist on a meager allowance
Usage: scratch and scrimp
Similar words: save
Definition: spend less; buy at a reduced price