thriftとは

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser

     The rest, […] willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands.

   • Ambrose Bierce

     […] 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.
   • 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.

   • c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets, quarto edition, [London]: Printed by J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216:
     : Act I, Scene I:

     I have a mind presages me such thrift.

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

• thrive

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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