stint
Nouns
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(n) an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- there were stretches of boredom
- he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
- (n) smallest American sandpiper Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper,
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(n) an individual's prescribed share of work
- her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
Verbs
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(v) subsist on a meager allowance
- scratch and scrimp
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(v) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- sting with the allowance