Noun
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an individual's prescribed share of work
"her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
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smallest American sandpiper
- least sandpiper - erolia minutilla -
an unbroken period of time during which you do something
"there were stretches of boredom"
"he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
Verb
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supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
"sting with the allowance"
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subsist on a meager allowance
"scratch and scrimp"