thrift

Thrift is defined as careful management of money, or savings bank or credit union, or a plant which is a member of the genus Armeria, family Plumbaginaceae and order Plumbaginales.

(noun)

  1. An example of thrift is careful budgeting.
  2. An example of a thrift is the Rock Rose.

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See thrift in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. Obsolete
    1. the condition of thriving; prosperity
    2. physical thriving; vigorous growth
  2. careful management of one's money or resources; economy; frugality
  3. any of a genus (Armeria, family Plumbaginaceae) of dwarf, evergreen, perennial dicotyledonous plants (order Plumbaginales) with narrow leaves and small, white, pink, red, or purplish flowers
  4. ☆ a mutual savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union: usually used in pl.
  5. Brit., Dialectal a means of thriving; work; labor

Origin: ME < ON < thrifast, to prosper: see thrive

See thrift in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  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.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, prosperity

Origin: , perhaps from Old Norse

Origin: , from thrīfask, to thrive; see thrive

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