About The Word Thrift
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Thrift
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What's The Definition Of Thrift?
[n] extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
[n] any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers Synonyms | Synonyms for Thrift: parsimoniousness | parsimony | penny-pinching Related Terms | Find terms related to Thrift: See Also | Armeria | Armeria maritima | cliff rose | frugality | frugalness | genus Armeria | sea pink | subshrub | suffrutex Thrift In Webster's Dictionary \Thrift\, n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See {Thrive}.]
1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in
regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove
very good husbands. --Spenser.
2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property;
increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. ``Your thrift
is gone full clean.'' --Chaucer.
I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the
genera {Statice} and {Armeria}.
{Common thrift} (Bot.), {Armeria vulgaris}; -- also called
{sea pink}.
Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
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