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What (who) is thrift - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Thrifts; Thrift (disambiguation)
thrift
¦ noun
1. the quality of being careful and not wasteful with money and other resources.
2. US another term for savings and loan.
3. a plant which forms low-growing tufts of slender leaves with rounded pink flower heads, growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains. [Armeria maritima.]
Origin
ME (in the sense 'prosperity'): from ON, from thrifa 'grasp, get hold of'; cf. thrive.
thrift
n.
1.
Success, prosperity, gain, profit, luck, good fortune.
2.
Frugality, thriftiness, economy, good-husbandry, economical management, savingness.
thrift
n. to practice thrift
Wikipedia
Thrift
Thrift may refer to:
- Frugality
- A savings and loan association in the United States
- Apache Thrift, a remote procedure call (RPC) framework
- Thrift (plant), a plant in the genus Armeria
- Syd Thrift (1929–2006), American baseball executive
Examples of use of thrift
1. Ray has been named chief investment officer at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, a new position at the agency that runs the Thrift Savings Plan.
2. But you don‘t want to get carried away with thrift.
3. Speed up administrative reform, anti–corruption and thrift practice 8.
4. To begin with, this tax punishes thrift and saving.
5. My husband‘s federal government Thrift Savings Plan had dropped about $20,000.