Antonym: waste. Similar words: drift, thrive, shrimp, shrink, rifle, lift, trifle, fifth. Meaning: [θrɪft] n. 1. any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers 2. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
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(31) Firstly, western culture places a high value on material acquisition and its display, because this reflects hard work and thrift.
(32) Savings banks and cooperatives spread new ideals about independence and thrift.
(33) Under federal deposit insurance regulations, Rapaport agreed to guarantee that the thrift met federal net worth requirements.
(34) The league's thrift shop welcomes donations of furniture, clothes and housewares.
(35) The cliff top turf was bright with thrift and sea camp ion.
(36) Since the deposits were insured by the federal government-giving thrift managers cheap funds-the investments were restricted by the federal authorities.
(37) A fellow trader talking to another thrift president on another line overheard DiNapoli and cracked up.
(38) If you have federal friends who are in the tax-deferred Thrift Savings Plan, dangle this column under various noses.
(39) The partnership hopes to receive more than $ 160 million, according to industry newsletter Thrift Liquidation Alert.
(40) After lunch, which I again finished alone, we drove to a thrift shop.
(41) Nor are we going to preach about the importance of inculcating children with the habit of thrift.
(42) It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
(43) Even knowledgeable thrift presidents felt they faced a choice be-tween rape and slow suicide.
(44) This bending of the rules was typical of Rabari thrift and good sense.
(45) If her goal was to minimize her involvement with a defunct thrift, she has failed.
(46) Thrift has become the prevailing practice.
(47) His thrift and industry speak well for his future.
(48) We must not equate thrift with stinginess.
(49) Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
(50) Principle Night: Never illiberality and thrift to your health.
(51) Courage in excess become foolhardiness, affection weakness(http://Sentencedict.com), thrift avarice.
(52) While some thrift institutions have acquired demand deposit authority.
(53) Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses.
(54) Do you think the rich should lay low, or is their newfound thrift un - American?
(55) Diligence , thrift , plain living and hard work constitute the good proletarian style.
(56) I buy clothes in the thrift store instead of noting the brand - names.
(57) He remained guided by the old - fashioned principles of hard work, honesty, neighborliness and thrift.
(58) Mr. Dang and his wife , Zhang Fengxia , 52 , are the apotheosis of Chinese thrift.
(59) To protect insured depositors, the FDIC responds immediately when a bank or thrift institution fails.
(60) China's traditional consumption culture that thrift and sobriety being a feature is the reason at deep layer that the smallholding economy is redundant in our country.