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(noun) an individuals prescribed share of work: "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" |
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Related Words: chore, job, task |
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(verb) supply sparingly, with a meager allowance |
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Synonyms: scant, skimp |
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Related Words: furnish, provide, render, supply |
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(noun) smallest American sandpiper |
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Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
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Related Words: sandpiper |
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(verb) scratch and scrimp |
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Synonyms: scrimp, skimp |
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Related Words: save |
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(noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" |
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Synonyms: stretch |
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Related Words: continuance, duration |
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