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unstinted


verb (used without object)

  1. to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don’t stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
  2. Archaic. to cease action; desist.

verb (used with object)

  1. to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
  2. Archaic. to bring to an end; check.

noun

  1. a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.
  2. an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one’s daily stint.
  3. limitation or restriction, especially as to amount: to give without stint.
  4. a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one’s stint.
  5. Obsolete. a pause; halt.

verb

  1. to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something)
  2. archaic to stop or check (something)

noun

  1. an allotted or fixed amount of work
  2. a limitation or check
  3. obsolete a pause or stoppage

noun

  1. any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia), such as C. minuta (little stint)

adj.late 15c., from un- (1) “not” + past participle of stint (v.). v.“to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal,” Old English styntan “to blunt, make dull,” from Proto-Germanic *stuntijanan (cf. Old Norse stuttr “short, scant,” Middle High German stunz “blunt, short,” German stutzen “to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate”), from PIE root *(s)teu- “to beat, strike, push, thrust” (see steep (adj.)). Related: Stinted; stinting. The noun is attested from c.1300.

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