(v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
(v. i.) To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
(a.) Scanty.
Example Sentences:
(1) And they’re hard on themselves.” McCaw said players often will pay for a top-quality coach, then try to skimp on a fitness trainer.
(2) We are under a lot of budget pressure at the moment but the community won’t thank us if we skimp unreasonably on national security,’’ Abbott said.
(3) He skimped studies to pursue drama and started his career with one line in the 1996 West End musical Martin Guerre .
(4) After all, my mother belongs to a generation of bright middle-class women who were only ever expected to work until a family came along, whose education was skimped and ambitions stifled – and who subsequently encouraged their daughters to believe the sky was the limit.
(5) But he and his fellow reformers aren't seeking to skimp on algebra, or calling for a bonfire of the works of the Chicago school.
(6) But you might have three years’ of tax documents on an eight-year-old laptop that won’t run a new operating system, or you might skimp on your tablet and end up with a model made by a small company that goes out of business and thus never fixes new security holes.
(7) The seven-storey store attracts more than 15m shoppers a year, and its new owners have not skimped on the investment required to keep them coming back.
(8) The Justice Department also accused the Texas of intentionally skimping on voter outreach after the law was passed.
(9) George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference skimped on proposals to reform finance – and a party whose two treasurers are a hedge-fund manager and a broker is unlikely to give the City too hard a time.
(10) Several investigations executed in recent years show that many school-children skimp increasingly on their school lunches the older they become.
(11) Popular books like these tend to generalize and skimp on the science, says Murray.
(12) Had Paterson listened, he would have been told that skimping on flood defences is deeply false economy even in austere times: ministers admit each scheme saves £8 in damage for every £1 spent.
(13) Murphy and Co aren’t trying to dole out the revelations or skimp on the secrets for some vague future date.
(14) Setting rules and controlling just about every aspect of its stores, so that the only thing that franchisees can skimp on is wages," he said after the ruling.
(15) Over a quarter of all adults skimped on meals so others in their households could eat.
(16) Asked whether the jury had skimped on reading the judge's 109 pages of instructions in order to reach their verdict so quickly, Hogan replied: "Before the closing arguments [by Apple and Samsung] the judge read to us the final instructions, instance by instance.
(17) Are government and local authorities skimping on quality of training and consultancy in favour of quantity of adoptions?
(18) the less one knows the more one is tempted to skimp and perform a minimal 'pilot' study.
(19) It is just that skimping on the pay of the people who keep hospitals working is the wrong way to do it.
(20) Developer Telltale Games' take on the zombie apocalypse has won widespread acclaim, and for good reason: it doesn't skimp on plot or characterisation, and will give you the shivers if played at night.
Stint
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
(n.) A phalarope.
(v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
(v. t.) To put an end to; to stop.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
(v. i.) To stop; to cease.
(v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
(v. t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Example Sentences:
(1) We already have a hard enough time trusting our technology and understanding what it’s doing,” says Soltani, who worked on regulation for the Federal Trade Commission with a brief stint at the White House.
(2) Today, after stints in the shadows of Whitehall and the private sector, Tim Matthews is back in the limelight as the new chief executive of Remploy, the quango that has been in the eye of a storm over closure of many of its factories providing jobs for people with disabilities.
(3) Cartilage segment alignment with focal, complete fracture healing and symmetrical chondrocyte proliferation were seen in fibrogen adhesive-stinted larynges.
(4) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
(5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
(6) Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, was informed of Stuart Robert’s plans to travel directly from a controversial stint in China to an official commitment in Singapore, a committee has been told.
(7) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(8) During his long stint in the witness stand, Harris was questioned at length about why he expressed abject remorse to the father for his actions, offering a little more credible explanation than he felt ending the relationship had upset the woman.
(9) 2010: Sir Terry Leahy, by now regarded as one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, announces plans to retire after a 14-year stint as chief executive saying he felt he had achieved his aim to “develop a purpose and values that could sustain Tesco through its challenges.” 2011: Phil Clarke becomes chief executive in March just before announcing record profits of £3.8bn .
(10) Even in the past few months, KC Grad has gained new neighbours, including the Ben Akiba comedy club – which relocated to Savamala after a stint in the city centre – as well as the Berliner beer hall.
(11) Rock has faced calls to walk away from his second stint as host in protest at the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ failure to nominate a single actor from black or ethnic minority backgrounds for the second year running.
(12) His stint in space marks a shift in the astronaut breed, away from the robotic iciness of Nasa's early crews to the more modern species that openly revels in the wonder of falling round the Earth.
(13) He attended the Sorbonne and went into journalism via reporting during Indira Gandhi's Indian emergency, followed by stints on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, later the Economist.
(14) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.
(15) And then, in 1937, she married Sydney Oswald Spark, otherwise known as "SOS", an older man and, apparently, "a borderline case", about to embark on a three-year stint as a schoolteacher in Rhodesia.
(16) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
(17) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
(18) A guest stint for anyone can only harm you and coming back without any sort of plan and substance is always a recipe for disaster.
(19) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
(20) If Hiddink takes the job it will be the second interim stint from the Dutchman after he took charge for three and a half months at the end of the 2008-09 season when Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked, and he went on to win the FA Cup.