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Definition of Thrift

Thrift

  1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
  2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
  3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
  4. One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Thrift Quotations

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
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Thrift Translations

thrift in German is Sparsamkeit
thrift in Swedish is sparsamhet

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