stinting

stinting
    adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical
           shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing
           father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat
           and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty
           because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is
           used only informally" [syn: {economical}, {frugal},
           {scotch}, {sparing}, {stinting}]
    

Stint \Stint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stinted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stinting}.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to
   cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull,
   stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial,
   Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. {Stent}, {Stunt}.]
   1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine;
      to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
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            I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of
            the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the
            production of weeds.                  --Woodward.
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            She stints them in their meals.       --Law.
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   2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person),
      upon the performance of which one is excused from further
      labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
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   4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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            The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
            while at work.                        --J. H. Walsh.
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26 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinting":
      cheeseparing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means,
      elegance, frugal, frugal to excess, frugality, law of parsimony,
      measured, moderate, overfrugal, parsimonious, parsimoniousness,
      parsimony, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pinching,
      restrained, scamping, scrimping, skimping, sober, sparing,
      temperate, too frugal