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Thrift

Thrift Meaning & Definition
Thrift Definition And Meaning

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

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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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