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thrift
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrift \Thrift\ (thr[i^]ft), n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]
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A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands.
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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. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "fact or condition of thriving," also "prosperity, savings," from Middle English thriven "to thrive" (see thrive), influenced by (or from) Old Norse þrift, variant of þrif "prosperity," from þrifask "to thrive." Sense of "habit of saving, economy" first recorded 1550s ( thrifty in this sense is recorded from 1520s; also see spendthrift). Thrift shop attested by 1919.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). 2 (context countable US English) A savings bank. 3 (context countable English) Any of various plants of the genus ''Armeria'', particularly (taxlink Armeria maritima species noshow=1). 4 (context obsolete English) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. 5 (context obsolete English) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
WordNet
n. any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching]
Wikipedia
Thrift may refer to:
- A savings and loan association in the United States
- Frugality
- Apache Thrift, a remote procedure call (RPC) framework developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development".
- Thrift (plant), a plant in the genus Armeria that have pink or white flowers; the term is especially used to refer to Armeria maritima
- A former brand used by Irish supermarket chain Superquinn for its generic grocery products
- A point of the Scout Law: "A SCOUT IS THRIFTY ..."
- Syd Thrift (1929–2006), American baseball executive
Usage examples of "thrift".
It had come, like most of her dishes, from the Salvation Army thrift store.
And, as will further be seen in connection with the land-shark plague, the conditions of life under cacique rule would kill thrift in an ant-hill.
We must first learn industry, thrift, co-operation, team-work from barrio to barrio.
The society that celebrates luxury sometimes forgets to honor virtues like thrift and prudence and conservation.
These sales allow us to practice thrift without visiting a thrift store.
If fashion is a method of living both in the present and on the cusp of the coming future, thrift is a method of exercising an old-fashioned virtue for the longer future.
This new materialism might revive pre-materialist ideals of thrift, frugality, and sufficiency, and it might encourage us to design products for repair and re-use, and to consume materials fully before discarding them.
And if there were, as there were, avaricious men among them, we must be careful not to blame them more than those whose avarice or excessive thrift was economically more beneficial to the world and to the community and the colony and to themselves.
And the result of that discernment and thrift is now furnishing an analogue for the conscious utilization of other waste--waste of native capacity of the steel-worker for happiness and usefulness.
This combination of invisible thrift and conspicuous luxuries was not imposed on Madison by the limitations of the allowance Luke made to Tyler.
But by my thrift yet shall I blear their eye, For all the sleight in their philosophy.
Evil thrift come to your jaws, And eke to mine, if I it grant, Or do favour you to avaunt.
The slopes on either side were green and rocky and carpeted in many places with pink thrift and yellow gorse and white clover.
Watching him stand before Thrift and pledge himself to her while she blushed and smiled, scarcely able to look at him, envy burned in me.
I helped Chivalry raise the beams on the extra rooms he was building, and watched Molly and Thrift cook companionably together.