stint
n. countablen. a set period of time that you spend doing a specific job or activity. It usually describes a short or fixed amount of time.
n. a fixed or limited period of time spent performing a specific task or working in a particular role. Often implies a temporary or seasonal duration.
She did a short stint as a waitress last summer.
After a two-year stint in the military, he returned to university to finish his degree.
The journalist's brief stint as a foreign correspondent in the war zone provided her with enough material to write a bestselling memoir about the complexities of modern conflict.
From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Origin unknown.
Often used with the preposition 'as' when referring to a job role, or 'in' when referring to a location or organization.