Personality trait; avoidance of unnecessary expenditure.
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Examples for "thrift "
Examples for "thrift "
1 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.
1 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.
1 Of course, long-term cheapness doesn't automatically make a company a takeover target.
2 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.
1 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.
1 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.
1 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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