stint

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun an unbroken period of time during which you do something
  2. noun smallest American sandpiper
  3. noun an individual's prescribed share of work

Etymology

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

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