| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A piece of work that has been assigned: assignment, chore, duty, job, office, task. See WORK. 2. A limited, often assigned period of activity, duty, or opportunity: bout, go, hitch, inning (often used in plural), shift, spell3, stretch, time, tour, trick, turn, watch. See TIME. | | VERB: | To be severely sparing in order to economize: pinch, scrape, scrimp, skimp. Idioms: pinch pennies, tighten (one's) belt. See SAVE.
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