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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for stinting:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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