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: --
In order to maintain low overhead costs and to ensure that only the needy received benefits, friendlies promoted the concepts of individual success, hard work, thrifty living, and integrity.
Gamblers and spendthrifts destroyed the patrimony of some families, while thrifty, lucky, or wise managers could substantially expand their estates.
The steady, thrifty, and industrious were required, such writers asseverated, for whom certain reward awaited.
The thrifty, sober, careful, disciplined entrepreneur was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, inextricably mixed with the uncontrolled, reckless idealist.
Thus, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis can be envisaged as an altered programming of growth and metabolism that aids survival pre- and early postnatally (fig001nhc).
Approximating shapes with discrete decompositions is thrifty, with no redundancy or ambiguity.
If people desire to be thrifty and to control their own spending, indirect taxation is the right choice.
In other words, we are extremely thrifty, and we also exercise sound financial management.
