| Thrift 1. (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. 2. (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. 3. (n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant. 4. (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria. Thesaurus Entries austerity, austerity program, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, economic planning, economicalness, economizing, economy, economy of means, false economy, forehandedness, frugality, frugalness, good management, husbandry, management, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, prudential administration, saving, scrimping, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, thriftiness, tight purse strings, unwastefulness |