Stint vs. Tenure — What's the Difference?

A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage – often separated in Erolia – which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.

The act, fact, manner, or condition of holding something in one's possession, as real estate or an office; occupation.

Supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something)

A period during which something is held.

A person's fixed or allotted period of work

The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals

Limitation of supply or effort

A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

A small short-legged sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.

A period of time during which something is possessed.

To be frugal or economical in providing something; hold back

A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.

(Archaic) To stop or desist.

A right to hold land under the feudal system.

To restrict (someone) in what is provided or allowed

(transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

To restrict (something supplied); be sparing with.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

(Archaic) To cause to stop.

The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

A length of time spent in a particular way, especially doing a job or fulfilling a duty

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

A limitation or restriction

Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

Any of several small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, primarily of the Eastern Hemisphere.

The term during which some position is held

To stop (an action); cease, desist.

The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

Give life-time employment to;

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

(transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.

(of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

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.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

To put an end to; to stop.

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.

To serve successfully; to get with foal; - said of mares.

To stop; to cease.

An unbroken period of time during which you do something;

Smallest American sandpiper

An individuals prescribed share of work;

Subsist on a meager allowance;

Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;