thrift
thrift
Definition
thrift (t̸hrift)
noun
- Obsolete
- the condition of thriving; prosperity
- physical thriving; vigorous growth
- careful management of one's money or resources; economy; frugality
- 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
- ☆ a mutual savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union: usually used in pl. in full thrift institution
- Brit., Dialectal a means of thriving; work; labor
Etymology: ME < ON < thrifast, to prosper: see thrive
thrift
Synonyms
thrift Finance Definition
Another
name for a savings and loan association, which is a depositary institution that
issues mortgages and holds deposits for individuals. See also savings and loan.
thrift
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- encourage: A hundred years later, Gladstone wanted government annuities sold at every post office to encourage thrift.
- include: Larger worm burdens can cause a range of problems including ill thrift, diarrhea, colic and death.
- get: Existing customers get short thrift however if they receive say, a new viewing card which happens to be faulty.
- promote: It promotes thrift in spending and order to ones life, helping on to define goals.
- discourage: Also disagreement over whether it would promote or discourage thrift.
- practice: For a town or country laborer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral.
Adjective modifier
- short: Existing customers get short thrift however if they receive say, a new viewing card which happens to be faulty.
- pink: These can produce large areas of color in the summer such as areas of pink Thrift and drifts of purple Sea Lavender.
- ill: Larger worm burdens can cause a range of problems including ill thrift, diarrhea, colic and death.
- great: Stronger effort, more enterprise and inventiveness, and greater thrift can only be encouraged by lower taxes.
Modifies a noun
- store: Thrift stores are another good place to look; I love going to dollar stores just to see what I can find.
- shop: Who needs to spend three months making a jumper you can buy down the thrift shop for pennies.
- tip: Do you have a thrift tip, bargain idea or legal money-making suggestion for future students?
- club: This aims to encourage saving by offering money management training and setting up thrift clubs to help members save and to support continued learning.
- management: In short, you're in thrift management mode.
- T-shirt: I walk past the rows of identical fake thrift store t-shirts in a thrift store t-shirt and feel slightly odd.
Noun used with modifier
- sea: Hedges burst with color and the estuary turns a shade of pink in June as sea thrift blooms.
thrift Quotes
The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
If Enterprise is afoot,Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening toThrift; and if Enterprise is asleep,Wealth decays, whateverThrift may be doing.
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