Definitions for: Thrift

[n] extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
[n] any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

Webster (1913) Definition: Thrift, n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]
1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in
regard to property; frugality.

The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove
very good husbands. --Spenser.

2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property;
increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. ``Your thrift
is gone full clean.'' --Chaucer.

I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak.

3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

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

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

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

Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching

See Also: Armeria, Armeria maritima, cliff rose, frugality, frugalness, genus Armeria, sea pink, subshrub, suffrutex

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