thrift English

Meaning thrift meaning

What does thrift mean?

thrift

— noun any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

— noun (= parsimony) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

Synonyms thrift synonyms

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thrift English » English

economy

frugality

saving

parsimony

frugalness

thrift institution

prudence

providence

penny-pinching

parsimoniousness

management of resources

thrifty

thriftiness

stinginess

sparingness

spareness

savings

retrenchment

obedience

miserliness

husbandry

frugal

economics

cliff rose

cheapness

chastity

chariness

carefulness

becoming

austerity

Providence

Topics thrift topics

What do people use thrift to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled

• What words refer to controlling your desire to spend money?
  frugal frugality thrifty thrift

Examples thrift examples

How do I use thrift in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I bought it in a thrift store.

The speaker laid stress on the need for thrift.

Practice thrift!

I bought it at a thrift shop.

Movie subtitles

Thrift. Thrift, Horatio.

Thrift, industry and hard work.

The new generation has no idea of thrift.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio!

The instances that second marriage move are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Thrift-T-Way?

Oh, I thank the gods for my habits of thrift.

He's opened a thrift shop downtown. using the more salable objects from the house. with which to build his trade.

Fashion and. thrift.

You can wear the thrift shop ones.

I admire your thrift.

Thrift, Horatio.

There's no further need for thrift, Stanley.

Thrift.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

I sent him a wire and instead of a check, I got a phone call and a 30-minute lecture on thrift, industry, and self-reliance.

I had to hit every thrift shop in this city to get the right clothes for those guys.

I'll go to a thrift shop at lunch.

There's that bag of clothes for the thrift store.

Mark's taking the first load down to the thrift store.

Thrift, industry and hard work. and catching the publisher with his secretary.

I know you have an obsession about thrift but there are limits.

You have a great many qualities that I admire-- industry, loyalty, but you'll be the first to agree that you often overdo the thrift.

In the will there are several legates for some of us and a small bottom of thrift for the education of Violet.

The amount for 2 000 pounds, in a bottom of thrift, what will only be able to stand up to 18 years, it is going to be shared between Peter Baker and Robert Siddaway.

I heard you say it on your show and I was down in the Village in an old thrift shop and I saw them, so I got them for you.

You're from a thrift store then!

Such as lust and thrift.

I've been going to the thrift store, but I'm going to find a way to keep that dress.

Did you get your stockings at the thrift shop?

Carpet's unremarkable, except for a stain beneath a thrift-store painting of a schooner lost at sea.

Believe it or not, from a thrift shop. A quarter.

Thrift shop.

News and current affairs

If phased in over a multi-year period as the economy recovers, as Romney proposes, thrift would likely be expansionary.

This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

But how long will US private sector thrift last?

In short, the eurozone's periphery is now subject to the paradox of thrift: increasing savings too much, too fast leads to renewed recession and makes debts even more unsustainable.

We economists were by and large capital boosters, and our magic formula for economic development was saving, investment, thrift, and wealth accumulation.

Likewise, the lack of a federal insurance regulator had left AIG regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the New York State Insurance Department, which proved to be a wholly inadequate arrangement.

It has often been claimed that capitalism rewards the qualities of self-restraint, hard-work, inventiveness, thrift, and prudence.

The fickleness of capital markets poses once again the paradox of thrift.

Thus, continuing pain seems likely for ordinary Japanese, whose thrift and productivity ensured that the country rose like a phoenix from its wartime destruction.

All successful economies are built on thrift, hard work, and individual initiative.

And reducing debt ratios by saving more leads to the paradox of thrift: too fast an increase in savings deepens the recession and makes debt ratios even worse.

It will not be easy to rein in over-spending and over-borrowing, to restore the real family values of saving, thrift, responsibility, and fair reward.

Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others' affairs.

Below it, there is the opportunity to create a single banking supervisor, combining the functions of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the regulatory functions of the regional Feds.