THRIFT

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THRIFT ,

economy

ECONOMY

in personal or domestic expenditure, the habit and practice of saving, careful or frugal management in money matters. The word, which is borrowed from Scandinavian

languages

LANGUAGES

, meant the

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

of one who thrives or prospers (M. Eng. thriven, Icel. thrifa, to clutch, seize, Norw. triva, seize). There are several species of

plants

PLANTS

, such as the sea-

pink

PINK

, Armeria maritima, or

March

MARCH
MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in
French
appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the
regular
- REGULAR
tread of a soldier: cf.
MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
MARCH, EARLS OF
MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

rosemary

ROSEMARY

(Statice) which from their vigorous growth are often termed " thrift."

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