| Main Entry: | thrift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
Synonyms: |
austerity, carefulness, economizing, frugality, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, stinginess, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
extravagance, spending, waste |
| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
Synonyms: |
avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
Antonyms: |
generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial institution |
Synonyms: |
coffer, countinghouse, credit union, depository, exchequer, fund, hoard, investment firm, repository, reserve, reservoir, safe, savings, stock, stockpile, store, storehouse, thrift, treasury, trust company, vault |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | savings and loan association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lending institution |
Synonyms: |
S & L, S and L, S&L, bank, building and loan association, building society, savings bank, savings institution, thrift, thrift institution |
| Main Entry: | prudence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness |
Synonyms: |
calculation, canniness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, judiciousness, moderation, providence, restraint, sense, sophrosyne, temperance, thrift, vigilance, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
recklessness |
| Main Entry: | thriftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Economy. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
liberality |
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