thriftiness

  • 111tightening the belt — fastening a waistband; thriftiness, being economical, being frugal …

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  • 112thrifty — adjective (thriftier, thriftiest) 1》 careful and prudent with money. 2》 chiefly archaic or dialect (of livestock or plants) strong and healthy. Derivatives thriftily adverb thriftiness noun …

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  • 113economy — n. 1. Frugality, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry, good housewifery. 2. Arrangement, regulation, management, administration. 3. System, plan, dispensation, established order …

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  • 114frugality — n. Economy, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry …

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  • 115thrift — n. 1. Success, prosperity, gain, profit, luck, good fortune. 2. Frugality, thriftiness, economy, good husbandry, economical management, savingness …

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  • 116vigor — n. 1. Strength, force, might, power, physical force. 2. Energy, strength, intellectual force. 3. Health, haleness, soundness, robustness, bloom, elasticity, tone. 4. Thriftiness, flourishing condition. 5. Liveliness, raciness, piquancy …

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  • 117thrifty — adjective using money carefully and wisely: hardworking, thrifty folk thriftily adverb thriftiness noun (U) …

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  • 118economy — noun 1) the nation s economy Syn: wealth, (financial) resources; financial system, financial management 2) one can combine good living with economy Syn: thrift, thriftiness, providence, prudence, careful budgeting, economizing …

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  • 119husbandry — noun 1) farmers have new methods of husbandry Syn: farm management, land management, farming, agriculture, agronomy; cultivation; animal husbandry, ranching 2) the careful husbandry of their resources Syn: conservation, management; …

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  • 120thrift — noun she learned her sense of thrift from her mother Syn: frugality, economy, economizing, thriftiness, providence, prudence, good management, good husbandry, saving, scrimping and saving, abstemiousness; parsimony, penny pinching, austerity Ant …

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