STINT


Meaning of STINT in English

v. & n.

--v.tr.

1. supply (food or aid etc.) in a niggardly amount or grudgingly.

2 (often refl.) supply (a person etc.) in this way.

--n.

1. a limitation of supply or effort (without stint).

2 a fixed or allotted amount of work (do one's stint).

3 a small sandpiper, esp. a dunlin.

Derivatives:

stinter n. stintless adj.

Etymology: OE styntan to blunt, dull, f. Gmc, rel. to STUNT(1)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.