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noun

Thrift n.

A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. "The rest,... willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands."

Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." "I have a mind presages me such thrift."

Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

(Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; also called sea pink.

Synonyms: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thrift" Quotes from Famous Books

... apparently, few revenges to take upon the communities in which she lived during her expanding youth. An eye bent too relentlessly upon dulness could have found it in Alexandra Bergson, with her slow, unimaginative thrift; or in Antonia Shimerda, who is a "hired girl" during the days of her tenderest beauty and the hard-worked mother of many children on a distant farm to the end of the story. Miss Cather, almost alone among her peers in this decade, ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... grafting a little gringo hustle to our family tree. Consider the supergrandson you will have if you leave me to follow my own desires in this matter. In him will be blended the courtliness and chivalry of Spain, the imagery and romance and belligerency of the Irish, the thrift and caution of the Scotch, and the go-get-him-boy, knock-down-and-drag-out spirit of our own Uncle Sam. Why, that's a combination you ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... liberty of the individual may become, in one direction, a spurious liberty, and that the elements of physical force, exerting themselves under the aegis of uncurbed freedom, may enter into conspiracy against intellect, individual effort, and thrift in such a way as to produce a tyranny worse than that existing ...

— A Hundred Years by Post - A Jubilee Retrospect • J. Wilson Hyde

... November, a War Office circular (dated 31 Oct.) was issued, to regulate and establish regimental savings banks, which have done so much to encourage thrift among our soldiers. The maximum of each soldier's deposit was limited to 30 pounds in any one year, and to 200 pounds in the whole. The rate of interest on deposits was fixed at 3 pounds 15 s. per cent per annum, but no interest was to be allowed upon less ...

— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... trees and well-kept shrubbery. The fences were in good repair. Behind the house and across the road stretched extensive fields of cotton and waving corn. They had passed no other place that showed such signs of thrift ...

— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt

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