Thrift

Definition: Thrift

Thrift

Noun

1. Any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers.

2. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

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Date "thrift" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Note: Thrift \Thrift\, noun. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]. (references)

Finance

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Synonyms: Thrift

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Economy

Noun: economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment.

Mart

Auction; flea market; yard sale, garage sale; pawn shop; antiques store; second-hand store, second time around shop, thrift shop.

Prodigality

Prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel, squanderer, locust; high roller.

Prosperity

Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.

Crosswords: Thrift

I got this dress at a thrift store for one dollar (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

We went searching through thrift store jungles (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Your Thrift Habits (1948)

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References

• New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle (reference)

• H.R. 2343--The Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board Abolishment Act : hearing before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, September 9, 1997 (reference)

• The Aeneid (Dover Thrift Editions) (reference)

• African-American Poetry: An Anthology: 1773-1927 (Dover Thrift Editions) (reference)

• The Analects (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Thrift Bulletin (reference)

• Thrift Closings (reference)

• Thrift Financial Reports (reference)

• Troubled & Undercapitalized Bank & Thrift List (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Thrift Americana (reference)

• Thrift Store Classics [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Help us make it hot for the Kaiser--Buy your stamps here now and see the thermometer go up--War Savings Stamps issued by the United States Government An idle quarter is a slacker quarter--Invest in Thrift Stamps now and save some lad's life in no man's la. Credit: Library of Congress.

He is piling up his Thrift Stamps--Are you? Buy Thrift Stamps / W.S.S. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In the pursuit of which by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom

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Economic History

Philippines

The General Banking Law (R.A. 8791, signed in May 2000 to succeed the 1948 General Banking Act) provides, inter alia, for a seven-year window during which foreign banks may own up to 100 percent of one locally-incorporated commercial or thrift bank (with no obligation to divest later). (references)

Trade

Philippines

The banking sector is comprised of 45 commercial, 111 thrift banks, and 787 rural banks with combined assets of pesos 3,207 billion (about $65 billion) as of end-March 2001. Although fewer in number, commercial banks dominate the banking sector, accounting for more than 90 percent of total banking system resources. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "thrift": Common thrift ♦ Office of Thrift Supervision ♦ thrift basin chamber ♦ thrift institution ♦ thrift savings plan ♦ thrift shop. Additional references.

Beginning with "thrift": thrift-box, thrift-liquidating, thrift-shop.

Ending with "thrift": spend-thrift.

Albanian

sukses ekonimik, rritje e shpejtë (upsurge), mbarëvajtje (progress, welfare, well being), mënjanoj (avert, avoid, deflect, depart, eliminate, elude, leave out, move aside, remove, save, shunt, stave off, store, store up, suspend, translocate, turn aside, uncurtain, ward off), lulëzim (bloom, blooming, blossoming, blow, blowing, efflorescence, exfoliation, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, heyday, inflorescence, meridian, pride, prime, prosperity), kursim (economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, prudence, saving, stockpiling), kursej (husband, lay up, put aside, reserve, save, save up, scrimp, spare, store), ekonomi (economics, economy, managed economy, prudence). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نمو معافى قوي, ‏تقتير (parsimony, scantiness), ‏توفير (economy, frugality, provision, saving, thriftiness), ‏تدبير (arrangement, concoction, disposal, economy, handling, management, providence), ‏إقتصاد (economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, prudence, scantiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спестовност, пестовност, пестеливост (economy, frugality, husbandry, nearness, parsimony, thriftiness), икономия (economy, husbandry, parsimony). (various references)

Chinese 

节俭 (Frugalities, frugality, thrifty). (various references)

Czech

spořivost (economy), hospodárnost (economy, thriftiness), šetrnost (frugality, gentleness, parsimony). (various references)

Danish

sparekasser (thrift institutions), sparebassin (basin for saving locking water, economizing chamber, economy bain n, thrift basin chamber, water saving chamber), opsparingsplan (thrift savings plan), det føderale finanstilsyn (Office of Thrift Supervision). (various references)

Dutch

spaarvereniging (thrift society), spaarplan (thrift savings plan), spaarkom (basin for saving locking water, economizing chamber, economy bain n, thrift basin chamber, water saving chamber), spaarbekken (basin for saving locking water, economizing chamber, economy bain n, reservoir, thrift basin chamber, water saving chamber). (various references)

Farsi 

عقل معاش , صرفه جوءی (Economy, Parsimony, Providence), خانه داری (Housekeeping). (various references)

Finnish

säästäväisyys (economy). (various references)

French

épargne (thriftiness), économie. (various references)

German

Sparsamkeit (canniness, economizing, economy, frugality, parsimony). (various references)

Greek 

λιτότησ (frugality, frugalness), λιτότητα (austerity, chastity, frugality, frugalness), αποταμίευση (saving), οικονομία (economy, husbandry, parsimony, saving, savings, spareness). (various references)

Hebrew 

קמוץ (clenched, closed, economy, frugality, parsimony, retrenchment, saving), חסכון (economy, frugality, saving), חסכ� ות (economy, parsimony, retrenchment, thriftiness). (various references)

Hungarian

takarékosság (economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, providence, self-denial, sparing). (various references)

Indonesian

penghematan (saving), hemat (economical, frugal). (various references)

Italian

parsimonia (parsimoniousness, parsimony, thriftiness), frugalit� (abstemiousness, frugality, husbandry, parsimoniousness, skimpiness), economìa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

節倹 (economy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せっけ�" (conquering, economy, interview, invading, soap, sweeping conquest, sweeping over), け�"やく (economy, frugality). (various references)

Korean 

근검. (various references)

Manx

ladoose (economy, good management, thriftiness), frioose (advertence, attention, attentiveness, consideration, heedfulness, importance, moment, thoughtfulness, thriftiness, value). (various references)

Pig Latin

iftthray.(various references)

Portuguese

relva-do-olimpo, poupança (parsimony, savings), parcimônia (austerity, chariness, parsimony, providence), frugalidade (chariness, economy, frugality), economia (economics, economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, providence, retrenchment, save, saving). (various references)

Romanian

economie (chariness, economics, economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, prudence, retrenchment, saving, savings), cumpãtare (moderation, parsimony, reasonableness, reservation, reserve, sanity, sobriety, temperance), chibzuinţã (parsimony, Providence). (various references)

Russian 

бережливость (chariness, economy, frugality, parsimony, thriftiness). (various references)

Scottish

rudhagail, bail. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poljski karanfil, štedljivost (frugality, parsimony, saving). (various references)

Spanish

frugalidad (frugality, parsimony, temperance, thriftiness), economia (economy), economía (economic austerity, economics, economy, husbandry), ahorro (putting by, saving, thriftiness). (various references)

Swedish

sparsamhet (economy, frugality, husbandry, thriftiness). (various references)

Turkish

tutumluluk (frugality, sparingness, thriftiness), idare (admin, administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, wire), deniz lâvantası, deliotu (madwort), azla yetinme (thriftiness). (various references)

Ukrainian

економність, багатство (affluence, bag, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, wad, weal, wealth), процвітання (bonanza, prosperity, success, wealth), працьовитість (industry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính tiết kiệm (thriftiness), sự tiết kiệm (thriftiness). (various references)

Welsh

darbodaeth (providence). (various references)

thriven. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thrift": thriftier, thriftiest, thriftily, thriftiness, thriftinesses, thriftless, thriftlessly, thriftlessness, thriftlessnesses, thrifts, thrifty. (additional references)

Words ending with "thrift": spendthrift. (additional references)

Words containing "thrift": spendthrifts, unthrifty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thrift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: theift, threlt, thret, thri, thrit, throft, thrott, thruft, traft, treft, trif, trift, troft, truft. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: firth, frith, fritt.

-2 letters: frit, rift, thir.

-3 letters: fir, fit, hit, rif.

-4 letters: hi, if, it, ti.

+1 letter: thrifts, thrifty.

+2 letters: fortieth.

+3 letters: forthwith, fortieths, fortnight, frothiest, thriftier, thriftily, unthrifty.

+4 letters: afterbirth, butterfish, forthright, fortnights, interfaith, shipfitter, shirtfront, thriftiest, thriftless, witchcraft.

+5 letters: afterbirths, featheriest, forthrights, fortnightly, shipfitters, shirtfronts, spendthrift, thriftiness, witchcrafts.