thrift

thrift

noun

Definition of THRIFT

careful management of material resources <through hard work and thrift our father was able to raise the money to put all four of us through college>

Synonyms frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift

Related Words conservation, saving; miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess; belt-tightening, retrenchment; discretion, forehandedness, prudence; austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance

Near Antonyms extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering

Antonyms diseconomy, wastefulness