0 showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste:
1 showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste and saving money for the future:
Think of the fraud perpetrated on the thrifty who had been implored to save and not to spend.
Since he was seven he has suffered from muscular dystrophy, and his parents, who have always been thrifty, hard-working people, have always looked after him.
If interest is the wages of thrift, the wages of the thrifty have been cut ruthlessly year afer year.
By all means let us encourage the ambitious, the thrifty and the brainy, but that cannot be done throughout the whole range of employees.
This would penalise the thrifty man, who had saved during his life as a public servant, as against the spendthrift.
Why clobber everybody else, large and small, profligate or thrifty, in the same way and all at once?
A discrimination comes in at the point when it is discovered that one of the two has been industrious and thrifty.
In other words, we are extremely thrifty, and we also exercise sound financial management.
