Thrift
Thrift (thrift) , noun
[Icelandic þrift. See Thrive.]
1.
A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
The rest,... willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands.
2.
Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
Your thrift is gone full clean.
I have a mind presages me such thrift.
3.
Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4.
(Botany) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
Collocations (1)
Common thrift (Botany) , Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.