thrift

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
2. (US, countable) A savings bank.
3. (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

Verb

To shop or browse at a thrift shop; to buy (something) at a thrift shop.

Conceptos

economía

ahorro

frugalidad

caja de ahorros

institución de ahorro

parquedad

parsimonia

prosperidad

Sinónimos

economy

frugality

saving

frugalness

parsimony

prudence

penny-pinching

management of resources

parsimoniousness

thrift institution

providence

savings

spareness

stinginess

thriftiness

thrifty

Providence

economics

sparingness

austerity

cliff rose

becoming

carefulness

chariness

chastity

cheapness

frugal

husbandry

miserliness

obedience

retrenchment

Traducciones

Sparsamkeit

parsimonia

économie

economia

risparmio

épargne

αποταμίευση

οικονομία

zuinigheid

frugalità

frugalidade

economia

parcimônia

Wirtschaftlichkeit

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/θɹɪft/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: thrift

In summary

From Middle English thrift, thryfte, þrift, from Old Norse þrift (“thriving condition, prosperity”). Equivalent to thrive + -t.