thrift

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

économie

épargne

frugalité

parcimonie

austérité

banque d'épargne

institution d’épargne

établissement d’épargne

armérie

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Sparsamkeit

parsimonia

economia

risparmio

αποταμίευση

economía

zuinigheid

οικονομία

parcimônia

frugalidade

ahorro

frugalità

economia

Wirtschaftlichkeit

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/θɹɪft/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: thrift

In summary

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