thrift
noun/θrɪft/
Frequency rank: #8,621 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the quality of using money and resources carefully and without waste.
Example sentence
She learned thrift from her grandparents, who never wasted a single penny.
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