Synonyms of the word

stint

• n. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
• n. limit; bound; restraint; extent.
• n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
• v. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
• v. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
• v. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour…
• v. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
• n. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or…
• n. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

chore

• n. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
• v. (US, dated) To do chores.
• v. (Britain, informal) To steal.
• n. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.

continuance

• n. (uncountable) The action of continuing.
• n. (countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.

duration

• n. An amount of time or a particular time interval.
• n. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the…
• n. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates,…

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

sandpiper

• n. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

save

• n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
• n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
• n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
• n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
• v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
• v. To put aside, to avoid.
• prep. Except; with the exception of.
• conj. (dated) unless; except.

scant

• adj. Very little, very few.
• adj. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
• adj. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
• v. (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
• v. (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
• n. (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
• n. (masonry) A sheet of stone.
• n. (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
• adv. With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

scrimp

• n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
• v. (transitive) To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
• v. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
• v. (intransitive) To be frugal.
• adj. Short; scanty; curtailed.

skimp

• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
• v. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
• v. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
• v. To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
• adj. (dated, Britain, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
• n. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
• n. (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

task

• n. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
• n. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
• n. An objective.
• n. (computing) A process or execution of a program.
• v. (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
• v. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
• v. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.