Definitions for stints

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IPA: /stɪnt/

Stints is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in stints (insstt).

Definitions for stints

noun

1. a period of time spent doing something:
2. an allotted amount or piece of work:
3. limitation or restriction, especially as to amount:
4. a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.:
5. Obsolete. a pause; halt.
6. any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper.

verb (used with object)

1. to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
2. Archaic. to bring to an end; check.

verb (used without object)

1. to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance:
2. Archaic. to cease action; desist.

Origin of stints

1150-1200; (v.) Middle English stinten, Old English styntan to make blunt, dull; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.; cognate with Old Norse stytta to shorten; cf. Examples for stints

And beget a lot of brats for some cheap clerk, who stints her expenses!

Tell the cook it's an order, and if he stints it there'll be consequences.

Spector studied law after stints in the military and a “leftist kibbutz in Israel.”

Her rise to fame was hampered by a debilitating heroin addiction, stints in rehab, and troubles with the law.

And he has lands and a castle; and yet how miserably we live, and how he stints me!

He has his signs too, and aspects, his seasons, periods and stints.

And he has lands and a castle—and yet how miserably we live, and how he stints me!

Under normal circumstances, they would be replaced when their stints in Washington are up.

Among his previous assignments were stints in war zones like Afghanistan and the Congo.

The actors perform these scenes for four, sometimes six hour, stints and are “exhausted,” he adds, by the end of their shifts.