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  1. transitive verb To restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with.
  2. transitive verb Archaic To cause to stop.
  3. intransitive verb To subsist on a meager allowance; be frugal.
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  • Naka lived in North America for a stint, and had a grasp of the language. —  GoNintendo.com Podcast
  • After their New World stint, they remained in South Florida, performing regularly with a several concert and opera orchestras. —  Blog updates
  • After that stint, the word is that he's back in the city he loves doing what he does best.
  • Because the stint is retroactive, it's possible that Webb would miss only one more start.
  • The other stint is at the invitation of Harvard University's Sangeet in Cambridge,
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English stinten, to cease, from Old English styntan, to blunt.
  2. Middle English stint, from Old English.

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  1. Also obsolete or dial. stent; from Middle English stinten, stynten, stenten, from Anglo-Saxon styntan, make dull, blunt, orig. make short (also in comp. forstyntan, ge-stentan, warn, restrain) (= Icelandic stytta (for *stynta), shorten, = Swedish dial. stynta, shorten, = Norwegian stytta, stutta, shorten, tuck up the clothes), from stunt, dull, obtuse, stupid, = Icelandic stuttr = Old Swedish stunt = Norwegian stutt, short: see stunt.
  2. Also obsolete or dial. stent; from stint, v.
 

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