Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
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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 Amerigo Bonasera had found this solution to the problem unseemly and penny - pinching .
2 But no way was I falling for this guy's penny - pinching con job.
3 Some beach vendors say sales have sunk and complain about penny - pinching visitors.
4 Gateway's solution for the penny - pinching gamer set is the P-6831 FX.
5 Tough times call for stiff drinks, penny - pinching , and a few more stiff drinks.
Use of the minimum set of elements required to achieve a goal.
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 .
6 As it was, he sought to veil his parsimony by conservative principle.
7 I beg leave to tell him, that mere parsimony is not economy.
8 Sometimes Hugo used to protest, aghast at some petty act of parsimony .
9 A parsimony - based approach to this problem has been proposed by Oberprieler et al.
10 If so, his father has more to answer for than parsimony .
11 He has the crime of prodigality, and the wretchedness of parsimony .
12 They now found that in enterprises like theirs, parsimony is the worst profusion.
13 For once the rigid parsimony of Frederic seemed to have relaxed.
14 How to encourage prudence and economy, and at the same time discourage parsimony .
15 But owing to parsimony he takes off his boots when crossing the swamps.
16 Instead, the reasons for rejecting endless parsimony stack up higher and higher instead.
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