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thrift

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of thrift

economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping

Words Related to thrift

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance

Near Antonyms of thrift

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering

Antonyms of thrift

diseconomy, wastefulness

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