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  1. 1. n. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Vigorous growth, as of a plant. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. Spenser. 2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." Chaucer. I have a mind presages me such thrift. Shak. 3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant. 4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria. Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink. Syn. -- Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit. Source: webster
  8. 8. One of several species of flowering plants of the generaStatice and Armeria. Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- alsocalled sea pink. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 n. any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers Source: ecdict

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