单词	thrifty
释义	thriftythrift‧y /ˈθrɪfti/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES By being thrifty and shopping wisely you can feed an entire family on as little as $100 a week. Cutting taxes on savings may persuade Americans to be more thrifty. Mrs Jones was a very thrifty woman who never wasted anything. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS An enterprise economy rewards the industrious and thrifty. Critics fear that adhoc boards, neither accountable nor thrifty, will proliferate. Don Perata, D-Oakland, became the most recent, proposing legislation to reward thrifty power users this summer. He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer. Plenty of people, particularly the thrifty sort, may mourn the plants' early passing. She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty, and ill-read, and genteel. There are many good books on the subject of being thrifty and stretching your resources. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomeone who spends money carefully► thrifty spending money carefully and cleverly so that nothing is wasted and you can manage with the money you have: · Mrs Jones was a very thrifty woman who never wasted anything.· By being thrifty and shopping wisely you can feed an entire family on as little as $100 a week. ► careful spending money only on things that are necessary or cheap because you want your money to last as long as possible: · I wouldn't say he was mean -- he's just careful.careful with money: · Once you've spent your allowance there won't be any more. You must learn to be more careful with money. ► economical spending money carefully and sensibly so that you do not spend more than necessary: · I'm trying to be more economical when I go shopping, and only buying what I really need.· Tim's a very economical person,. He always looks around for the best buys. ► frugal spending as little money as possible, even on things that are necessary such as food and drink, especially because you are poor: · He was very frugal, and would often use a tea bag three or four times over.· The monks lead a frugal life, allowing themselves only the bare essentials. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► genotype · The thrifty genotype hypothesis and its implications for the study of complex disorders in man. using money carefully and wisely SYN  economical:  hard-working, thrifty people—thriftily adverb—thriftiness noun [uncountable]
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