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thrift

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thrift  (thrft)
n.
1. Wise economy in the management of money and other resources; frugality.
2. Vigorous growth of living things, such as plants.
3. Any of several densely tufted plants of the genus Armeria, especially A. maritima, having white to pink flower heads with a funnel-shaped scarious calyx.
4. A savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank. Also called thrift institution.

[Middle English, prosperity, perhaps from Old Norse, from thrfask, to thrive; see thrive.]

thrift
Noun
1. wisdom and caution with money
2. a low-growing plant of Europe, W Asia, and North America, with narrow leaves and round heads of pink or white flowers [Old Norse: success]
thriftless adj
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Noun1.thriftthrift - any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
Armeria, genus Armeria - shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials
Armeria maritima, cliff rose, sea pink - tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover
subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
2.thrift - extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
frugality, frugalness - prudence in avoiding waste

thrift
Translations
Spanish thrift [θrɪft] neconomía
French thrift [θrɪft] néconomie f
German thrift [θrɪft] nSparsamkeit f
Italian thrift [θrɪft] nparsimonia

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Just about that time the word Thrift was to the fore.
Art will still withhold herself from thrift, and she does well, for nothing but love has any right to her.
There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon.
 
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