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# stint

«stint» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fixed period of work or time spent doing a job** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (stint, stints)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stint is a fixed period of work or time spent doing a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/#m1)

2) (old use) A stint is a limit or holding back; «without stint» means freely and in plenty, with nothing held back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales «without stint» means food and drink are given freely and in plenty

### examples

- We ate without stint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/#x1)
- She did a stint as the cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/#x2)
- He worked a long stint at the mill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths: a stint names a period of work or a limit, not an operation or an amount to count

### In the corpora

- [Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.958/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.