Usually means: Period of time spent working.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word stint:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stint: Merriam-Webster
  3. stint, stint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stint, stint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stint: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stint: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stint, stint: Wordnik
  8. stint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stint: Wiktionary
  10. stint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stint: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stint: Dictionary.com
  14. stint (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stint (producer), Stint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stint: Rhymezone
  20. stint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stint: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. stint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stint: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STINT: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stint: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stinted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
verb:  (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
verb:  (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
verb:  To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
verb:  (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
noun:  A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
noun:  Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
noun:  Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
noun:  (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
noun:  Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
noun:  Misspelling of stent (“medical device”). [A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.]

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