the careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste and saving money for the future. The idea of the price increases is to encourage thrift.

the activity of looking for or buying goods from thrift stores or other places that sell used things such as clothes, books, or furniture :.

1. Careful management especially of money. 2. A savings bank or savings and loan association called also thrift institution. 3. Healthy and vigorous growth.

Thrift is the quality and practice of being careful with money and not wasting things. They were rightly praised for their thrift and enterprise.

Thrifting definition: shopping for secondhand goods, as at a thrift store. See examples of THRIFTING used in a sentence.

Thrift means being very careful about how much money you spend. Reusing the same tea bag ten times so as not to waste money is a kind of thrift.

verb (used with object). to buy secondhand, as at a thrift store: I thrifted these purple suede pumps for ten bucks.

thrift · ​(approving) the habit of saving money and spending it carefully so that none is wasted see also spendthrift · Questions about grammar and vocabulary?

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthrift /θrɪft/ noun [uncountable] old-fashioned wise and careful use of money, so that none is wasted → ...

31 июл. 2018 г. · It means that you are going to buy clothes that other people have worn before. Ex: "Let's go thrifting." "I really like to go thrifting on the weekends."