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Joe Schweitzer, 69, a retired teacher and a longtime Downey customer in Sherman Oaks, said Friday afternoon that he had known the thrift was at risk of failing.

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  1. noun Wise economy in the management of money and other resources; frugality.
  2. noun Vigorous growth of living things, such as plants.
  3. noun Any of several densely tufted plants of the genus Armeria, especially A. maritima, having white to pink flower heads with a funnel-shaped scarious calyx.
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  • But she had far greater admiration for my thrift, for before submitting my design to the great one I had gone through the store and secured a price on all of the materials which went into the gown. —  Madeleine An Autobiography
  • This "Gera Bond" the reader can note for himself as an excellent piece of Hohenzollern thrift, and important in the Brandenburg annals. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • As who sayd, nought, the thrift is agoe —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
  • Joe Schweitzer, 69, a retired teacher and a longtime Downey customer in Sherman Oaks, said Friday afternoon that he had known the thrift was at risk of failing. —  Free Internet Press
  • 1758], how useful will it prove in a Country bred everywhere to Spartan thrift, accustomed to regard waste as sin, and which will lay out no penny except to purpose! —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
 

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  1. Middle English, prosperity, perhaps from Old Norse, from thrīfask, to thrive; see thrive.

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  1. from Middle English thrift, from Icelandic thrift (= Swedish Danish drift), thrift, from thrifa (reflexive thrīfask), thrive: see thrive.
 

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