thriftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: thrĭft, IPA^(key): /θɹɪft/
  • 韻: -ɪft

名詞

thrift (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 thrifts)

1. (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).

   His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.

   • 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande  […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] By John Morrison, 1809:

     The rest, […] willing to fall to thrift , as I have seene many souldiers after the service to prove very good husbands

   • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: Holy Terror

     […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […]

2. (countable, US) A savings bank.

   Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.

3. (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
4. (obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Bassanio: […] And many Jasons come in quest of her.
     O my Antonio, had I but the means
     To hold a rival place with one of them,
     I have a mind presages me such thrift,
     That I should questionless be fortunate!

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
     And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
     Where thrift may follow fawning.

5. (obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

同意語

• (characteristic of using a minimum of something): frugality

反意語

• spendthrift

派生語

• thrifty
• thrift shop
• thrift store

関連する語

動詞

thrift (三人称単数 現在形 thrifts, 現在分詞 thrifting, 過去形および過去分詞形 thrifted)

1. (transitive) To obtain from a thrift shop.
   • 2007, James Bernard Frost, World Leader Pretend, page 152:

     She probably thrifted the T-shirt and shorts. Bought the hiking boots yesterday at Copeland's. She's not much of a hiker, Xerxes thinks.

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