thrift

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

parcimônia

frugalidade

economia

parcimónia

instituição de poupança

parcimonioso

antidade

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

Sparsamkeit

parsimonia

économie

economia

risparmio

economía

αποταμίευση

épargne

οικονομία

zuinigheid

frugalità

ahorro

Wirtschaftlichkeit

parcimonie

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/θɹɪft/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: thrift

In summary

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