[
US
/ˈθɹɪft/
]
[ UK /θɹˈɪft/ ]
[ UK /θɹˈɪft/ ]
NOUN
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
How To Use thrift In A Sentence
- It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
- When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
- How has the UK moved from being a nation that held up thrift as a virtue and considered debt a vice, to owing a trillion pounds on mortgages, credit cards and other loans?
- I've said that we want to put responsibility at the heart of our society and thrift at the heart of our government. The Sun
- Government efforts to encourage short-term thrift have had mixed success. Times, Sunday Times
- A bowl accompanied by a plate of three perogies, a scoop of mashed potatoes and a gob of the ubiquitous sour cream makes a filling, comforting and extremely thrifty supper.
- I drove the ecocentric 104bhp BlueMotion, which was thrifty and yet remarkably perky. Car review: VW Golf Cabriolet
- In one of his early sonnets, Shakespeare wittily turns such "unthrifty" wasting into economic malpractice: Me, Myself, and I
- Banks, thrifts, and credit unions collected a record $37.8 billion in service charges last year.
- The décor is East Village thrift-shop moderne.