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English and French Search Results for: thrift

Summary

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thrift:
- économie; parcimonie; épargne
Wiktionary:
- thrift → parcimonie, économie, épargne, banque d'épargne, armérie

English

Detailed Translations for thrift from English to French

thrift:

thrift [the ~] nom

the thrift (frugality)
l'économie; la parcimonie; l'épargne
- économie [la ~] nom
- parcimonie [la ~] nom
- épargne [la ~] nom

Translation Matrix for thrift:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
parcimonie	frugality; thrift	meagerness; meagreness; parsimony; scantiness; slenderness
économie	frugality; thrift	being economical; cost reduction; curtailment; cut; cut back in costs; cut down expenses; cutting short; decrease; diminution; dwindling; economics; economy; finance management; foreshortening; market; national economy; political economy; recess; reduction; restricting; retrenchment; salary cut; saving; shortening; slackening; trade and industry
épargne	frugality; thrift	being economical; savings
-	parsimoniousness; parsimony; penny-pinching

Related Words for "thrift":

thrifts

Synonyms for "thrift":

subshrub; suffrutex
parsimony; parsimoniousness; penny-pinching; frugality; frugalness

Related Definitions for "thrift":

extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily¹
any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers¹

Wiktionary Translations for thrift:

thrift

noun

characteristic of using a minimum of something
- thrift → parcimonie; économie; épargne
savings bank
- thrift → banque d'épargne
various plants of the genus Armeria
- thrift → armérie

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