thrift

Examples

• All

• We're thrilled at the sales, for though we're not poor students anymore, our thrift goes deep.

  Academic text (1994)

• But the thrift in me, the thrifty in me cannot throw these out.

• So they created savings banks to encourage thrift and saving.

• Contemporaries saw these improvements as a sign of thrift and hope.

  Academic text (1991)

• Combined with a life of thrift, such an arrangement was affordable even to the family of an unskilled worker.

  Academic text (1991)

• Thrift, hard work, pay your bills on time, maybe you'll have a mountain of your own someday.

  An American Christmas Carol (1979)

• I admire your thrift.

  Black Rain (1989)

• Life growing up included church, music (cello for John), excelling at school, and thrift in the Depression.

  Academic text (2018)

• The ingrained sense of conservatism, discipline, hard work, sacrifice, and thrift is still very strong in the Japanese psyche.

  Academic text (1994)

• Her thrift in managing expenses allowed her to save for a new car.

Synonyms

F

frugality

vsthrift

8 5.8

Careful use of money and things to avoid waste

is more about the habitual act of careful resource use than management

T

thriftiness

vsthrift

1 5.0

Careful use of money and things to avoid waste

is the same concept presented in a different common form

F

frugalness

vsthrift

6.8

Careful use of money and things to avoid waste

is the same idea expressed with a different standard noun form

E

economism

vsthrift

• Archaic

9.9

An old word for careful use of money to save and avoid waste

is the modern neutral term rather than the archaic expression

Antonyms

E

extravagance

7 6.8

Spending a lot of money in a wasteful way

W

wastefulness

1 4.6

Using money or things carelessly in a way that causes extra loss

Compounds

T

thrift institution

• Specialized

1 5.5

A bank or credit union that helps people save money and buy a home

How Thrifty

parsimony

2 9.9

frugality

8 5.8

thrift

19 3.8

economy

54 3.1

wastefulness

1 4.6

Surface Forms

Etymology