avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place. He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong. Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions. a period of time spent doing a particular job or activity stint in/at. to provide or use too little of something stint on
an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance