thrift
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thrift englanniksi
The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
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(RQ:Spenser Ireland) willing to fall to thrift , as I have seene many souldiers after the service to prove very good husbands
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A bank.
''Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.''
Any of various plants of the genus (taxfmt), particularly (taxlink).
Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice): (..)And many Jasons come in quest of her.O my Antonio, had I but the meansTo hold a rival place with one of them,I have a mind presages me such thrift,That I should questionless be fortunate!
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice): No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,And crook the pregnant hinges of the kneeWhere thrift may follow fawning.
To obtain from a shop.
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