Word of the day: Stint

Stint: limite, limitação, restrição, economia, quantidade ou quantia guardada, tarefa com prazo limitado, restringir, limitar, economizar, racionar, poupar

Synonyms: hitch, circumscription, confinement, limitation, rein, tenure, tour, a period of time spent at a particular activity, a definite quantity of work assigned

 “His parents have always supported him without stint, no matter what interests he has chosen to pursue.”

“They stinted neither trouble nor money”(não pouparam nem esforços nem dinheiro.)

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Word of the day: Tether

Tether: corda, trava, corrente para segurar um animal no pasto, âmbito, limite, amarrar, pear

Synonyms: attach,  bond, chain, fastening, fetter, halter, lead, leash, restraint, rope, shackle 

“…why did the Chinese first tether their currency to the dollar, after all, if not because of a belief that the United States had the world’s most dominant... “(www.newsweek, July 25, 2011)

Obs.: “that is beyond my tether”: “isso ultrapassa minhas forças” / “to be at the end of one’s tether”: “não ter mais forças, estar com os recursos esgotados”

Word of the Day: Stint

Stint:  limite, limitação, restrição, economia, quantidade ou quantia guardada, tarefa com prazo limitado, restringir, limitar, economizar, racionar, poupar

Synonyms:  hitch, stint, tenure, tour, scant, skimp (on), stint (on)

“After a stint in the military that brought him to Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, he joined the Police Department in 1984 and seven years later was attached to its gang unit.” (www.latimes.com / March 20, 2012)