stinting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]stinting
- present participle and gerund of stint
Antonyms
[edit]Noun
[edit]stinting (plural stintings)
- Act of one who stints.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
- […] as long as they can contrive to make a respectable appearance once a year, when they come to town, he gives himself little concern about their private stintings and struggles at home.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- There is no such bad policy as stinting a boy—or putting him on a lower allowance than his fellows