0 a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity:
He has just finished a stint of compulsory military service.
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
1 to provide, take, or use only a small amount of something:
2 a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity:
4 a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity:
They are spending money where it needs not to be spent, with the result that money is stinted where it ought to be spent.
As one of my noble friends said earlier, it should not be a question of stinting on resources.
At the moment, it is largely a matter of chance and history whether a grazing common is stinted or not.
If we succeed in doing that, we shall have all the ingredients on which to work out a later quantification and stinting programme.
We have very good examples of modern stinting formulas which have been worked out.
On recruiting we have not stinted; we spend £600,000 a year in publicity on this particular matter alone.
The third suggestion was the elimination of "stints," and the fourth suggestion was that something should be done to reduce absenteeism in the mines.
Parents are stinting themselves of the necessities of life in order to pay their rent.
