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thrift

[thrift]

noun

economical management; economy; frugality.

Also called thrift institution. Banking. a savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union.

Also called sea pink. any alpine and maritime plant belonging to the genus Armeria, of the leadwort family, having pink or white flowers, especially A. maritima, noted for its vigorous growth.

any of various allied plants.

vigorous growth, as of a plant.

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Obsolete. prosperity.

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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Old Norse: well being, prosperity; compare thrive

Related forms

non·thrift, adjective

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Example Sentences

The thrift industry is not going down without a fight.

China's capacity for thrift has long perplexed economists.

Thrift shops are a great resource for donating or buying used clothing.

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The thrift industry is not going down without a fight.

China's capacity for thrift has long perplexed economists.

Thrift shops are a great resource for donating or buying used clothing.

Thrift across the board may extend the life of our species.

The others had to pieced together their outfits from other costumes and purchases at thrift stores.

Here's a list of five things that are useless, and which you should send to the thrift store right now.

But thrift shopping for hobbyists has little to do with thrift and less to do with shopping in any conventional sense.

Thrift and hard work, not showing off and speculation would have been more accurate, he says.

Search thrift stores for clothing from a different era.

Read on for more of my recent finds from thrift stores, collectibles shops and garage sales.

But even record budget deficits and falling household saving could not counteract the scale of corporate thrift.

Scour antique and thrift shops for interesting pieces.

Or dump them off in a thrift store to see if anyone buys them and puts them on eBay.

Putting all that waste to good use seems as virtuous as thrift and hard work.

When you upgrade, you can recycle household electronics by donating them to a thrift store or a local charity.

If you are looking to save a few dollars there are alternatives that can be picked up at your local thrift store.

Thrift is hard in a credit culture that promises to take the waiting out of wanting.

Seek out ways to put your inventory to work by patronizing a thrift shop or organizing a local clothing exchange.

Feet: thrift store rain boots, spray-painted silver.

The concerns are understandable, but this thrift is fundamentally wrong in the context of the current crisis.

If you don't want to do the job yourself, find a thrift store or a nonprofit organization that will do it.

Were governments not stepping in, the private shift to thrift would be causing an even deeper recession.

Donate clothing your children grow out of or that you no longer wear to thrift stores.

Later he became known for promoting a chain of thrift shops for the poor.

Any organization with a thrift shop will take it, but rules differ.

Thrift shops, continuing to keep in mind their original purpose of raising money for a worthwhile cause, are going strong.

Tell her where the consignment shops or good thrift stores are, and tell her that you can get some good stuff at a good price.

Shopping is done only twice a year at a thrift store and replaces.

The recession is forcing a return to a culture of thrift that many economists say could last well beyond the recovery.

But over the years, thrift combined with technology and capitalism produced such vast returns that thrift went out of fashion.

Consider buying your crisply pressed trousers and blouses from thrift or consignment stores.

Thrift is re-emerging as a desirable consumer value, and devoted penny-pinchers are having the time of their lives.

Thrift stores are becoming more of a destination for people looking for deals on kitchen supplies.

It has obtained a thrift licence, enabling it to provide trust services.

Using found and handmade furnishings, thrift and ingenuity, a talented couple furnished a home stylishly on a budget.

Thrift has to be embraced as an affirmative good, not an evil that economist make it out to be, not so subtly.

Federal examiners found the thrift insolvent, exposing it to closure by the state.

Thrift imposed by a sickly economy is probably the principal cause.

Furthermore it also taxes wealth built up through windfalls rather than thrift and effort.

America's return to thrift is unlikely to prove a cyclical blip.

The thrift that accompanies the aging of the population in a high-growth economy imposes a large cost.

Voters in the donor country would be outraged if the rewards of their thrift were used to rescue the profligate.

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World English Dictionary

thrift (θrɪft)

—n
1.	wisdom and caution in the management of money
2.	Also called: sea pink any of numerous perennial plumbaginaceous low-growing plants of the genus Armeria, esp A. maritima, of Europe, W Asia, and North America, having narrow leaves and round heads of pink or white flowers
3.	rare vigorous thriving or growth, as of a plant
4.	(US) a building society, savings bank, or credit union
5.	an obsolete word for prosperity

[C13: from Old Norse: success; see thrive]

'thriftless

—*adj*

'thriftlessly

—*adv*

'thriftlessness

—n

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Word Origin & History

thrift

c.1300, "fact or condition of thriving," also "prosperity, savings," from M.E. thriven "to thrive" (see thrive), possibly infl. by O.N. þrift, variant of þrif "prosperity," from þrifask "to thrive." Sense of "habit of saving, economy" first recorded 1550s

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(thrifty in this sense is recorded from 1520s; also see spendthrift). Thrift shop first attested 1947.

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"Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim."

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