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Meanings of economism in English
Personality trait; avoidance of unnecessary expenditure.
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Examples for "thrift"
Examples for "thrift"
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Research sale days: Some people don't know that thrift shops have sales.
2
The thrift's other units include retail banking, commercial banking and credit cards.
3
Behind the thrift store were other buildings-officesand a modern dormitory-stylebuilding.
4
Acquired from thrift stores after I was done with the flea market.
5
Most thrift stores offer extremely low prices compared to their retail counterparts.
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This new frugality is cutting into the nation's huge appetite for oil.
2
The frugality and modesty of his court have already been referred to.
3
Only frugality enables them to outdo the rich on their own ground.
4
Our parents have always been thrifty, so frugality was ingrained in us.
5
Since the world began, industry and frugality have been rewarded by wealth.
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Of course, long-term cheapness doesn't automatically make a company a takeover target.
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Elegance and cheapness are combined in a remarkable degree in this edition.
3
The lure of the cheapness of the merchandise overcomes all other considerations.
4
The effect of this cheapness is great in every department of industry.
5
The cheapness of wind-carriage may be set against the overproduction of pollen.
1
Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
2
About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
3
Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
4
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
5
The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
1
Against the Atlanta Hawks, they unveiled a whole new level of stinginess.
2
And all the thanks I get is to be taunted with stinginess.
3
He has treated me with a stinginess that I never knew equalled.
4
I'm glad, for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.
5
It's a pity that stinginess is one of the roads to affluence.
1
Methods or systems of cropping the soil, with reference to economizing fertility.
2
There is no thought of trafficking or economizing in labor and in love.
3
The work of the Army in economizing food has been a great work.
4
The Board of Trade has urged on me the necessity for economizing gas.
5
It is the result of economizing money, and employing it for beneficial purposes.
1
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
2
I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.
3
One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.
4
What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.
5
He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.
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He has no sense of duty in planning or economising.
2
The concentrated fuels were not known in those days, and heat-economising appliances were not invented.
3
By economising the food we were able to save enough for breakfast the next morning.
4
Andy is cautious and, when things got tight, he suggested economising on their attic bedroom.
5
A patriotic nation was economising in order to get five per cent on the War Loans.
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The village, though irregular, had a general air of thriftiness and respectability.
2
You ought to have taught them the value of cleanliness, thriftiness, and comfort.
3
For briskness, thriftiness, energy, and alacrity, it is hard to find his match.
4
The travel industry has also noticed a new thriftiness.
5
Aussies have bought what we need and a damaging thriftiness is settling on the economy.
Usage of economism in English
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Ruskin and William Morris saw, and doubtless exaggerated, the danger to which spiritual values were exposed at the hands of the dominant economism.
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