plural of thrift

Shopping for cheap items, as for example at a garage sale or flea market.

Characterised by thrift; thrifty

plural of Thrift

A surname.

(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). / (countable, US) A savings bank.

(transitive) To obtain from a thrift shop.

simple past tense and past participle of thrift

plural of paradox of thrift

(economics) A paradox of economics, stating that an increase in autonomous saving leads to a decrease in aggregate demand and thus a decrease in gross output which will in turn lower total saving: narrowly speaking, total saving may fall because of individuals' attempts to increase their saving, and, broadly speaking, increase in saving may be harmful to an economy.