Synonym: careful, economical, frugal, prudent, saving, sparing. Antonym: wasteful. Similar words: thrift, fifty, shifty, rift, drift, adrift, thrill, thrive. Meaning: ['θrɪftɪ] 
adj. 1. careful and diligent in the use of resources 2. mindful of the future in spending money.
adj. 1. careful and diligent in the use of resources 2. mindful of the future in spending money. 
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1. Except for smoking and drinking, he is a thrifty man.
2. My mother taught me to be thrifty.
3. Jackie sees the comedy in her millionaire husband's thrifty habits.
4. He was brought up to be thrifty and never to get into debt.
5. An enterprise economy rewards the industrious and thrifty.
6. A thrifty business can save up its profits and reinvest them in the company.
7. Critics fear that adhoc boards, neither accountable nor thrifty, will proliferate.
8. Mrs Jones was a very thrifty woman who never wasted anything.
9. Thrifty Payless Inc., the largest drugstore chain in the West, operates 1, 048 stores in 11 Western states.
10. Thrifty, hardworking, unemotional, they tipped their hats to no one.
11. She was absolutely punctual herself,(sentencedict.com/thrifty.html) thrifty about her own time.
12. He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer.
13. By being thrifty and shopping wisely you can feed an entire family on as little as $100 a week.
14. She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty, and ill-read, and genteel.
15. The thrifty genotype hypothesis and its implications for the study of complex disorders in man.
16. Oxfam is the thrifty man's chain-store[sentencedict.com], and the branch at 202b Kensington High Street is its menswear flagship.
17. Plenty of people, particularly the thrifty sort, may mourn the plants' early passing.
18. "We were incredibly thrifty, " says Cran.
19. I'm a very thrifty housekeeper - no waste.
20. She is a thrifty housekeeper.
21. Diligence is a money-spinner, thrifty is the cornucopia.
22. They have plenty of money now, but they still tend to be thrifty.
23. Cutting taxes on savings may persuade Americans to be more thrifty.
24. There are many good books on the subject of being thrifty and stretching your resources.
25. Caroline Montalva had always been considered one of the smartest of Parisians and like most of them she was also thrifty.
26. And tailor-made ... throw-away fashion that suits the pocket of the thrifty.
27. Don Perata, D-Oakland, became the most recent, proposing legislation to reward thrifty power users this summer.
28. It was objected against the proposals that they would pena 1 ise those people who had been thrifty.
29. But memories of her early straits had made her excessively thrifty.
30. Max Magni, who leads McKinsey's consumer goods practice in Greater China, said this pragmatic, thrifty trait was unique to China and deeply engrained in the culture.