All stint synonyms
stint
S s noun stint
- work β Henry Clay, 1832β84, U.S. songwriter.
- kp β (networking) Β The country code for North Korea.
- devoirs β compliments or respects; courteous attentions
- grain of salt β salt crystal
- deadweight β (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- inning β Usually, ins. persons in office or political power (distinguished from outs).
- limitation β a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- weeks β a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
- lack β something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- insufficience β Obsolete form of insufficiency.
- grindstone β a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
- go around β an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- month β Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- dos β any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS.
- fun and games β frivolously diverting activity.
- engagement β A formal agreement to get married.
- homework β schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- annuity β An annuity is an investment or insurance policy that pays someone a fixed sum of money each year.
- bout β If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.
- year β a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- exiguity β The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- chore β A chore is a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- hour β a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- containment β Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries.
- allotment β In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- degree β You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt.
- months β Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- week β a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
- chronology β The chronology of a series of past events is the times at which they happened in the order in which they happened.
- assignment β An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
- lastingness β The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
- hours β a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- hangup β Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- devoir β duty; obligation
- in-junction β Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- job β the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
- allowance β An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
verb stint
- begrudge β If you do not begrudge someone something, you do not feel angry, upset, or jealous that they have got it.
- economize β to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
- economise β to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
- cut corners β to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- make ends meet β the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- eat one's heart out β Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- grudge β a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.