Time on a job

The answer

STINT

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STINT answer page.

Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for STINT

Every other clue in this collection answered by STINT, most used first.

• Tour of duty - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Be frugal - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• Time on the job - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Period of work - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Task - used 23 times, most recently in 2001
• Stretch - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Brief job - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Limit - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
• Hitch - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Be sparing - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Limitation. - used 8 times, most recently in 1990
• Work period - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Assigned task. - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• Chore - used 7 times, most recently in 1995
• Pinch pennies - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Restrict. - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Service period - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Be miserly - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Period of time - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Spell - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• One more time - AGAIN, used 115 times
• Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
• ___ a time - ONEAT, used 91 times
• Time being - NONCE, used 79 times
• Old-time anesthetic - ETHER, used 76 times
• Bank job - HEIST, used 73 times

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