Thrift remains, if perhaps in unexpected and counter-intuitive ways, a key to the complex issues of contemporary and economic life. To increase in bulk or stature to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant to flourish as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures trees thrive in a good soil. In these essays, thrift becomes a powerful, but evolving moral idea and practice that has indelibly marked the character of American life since its earliest days. So understood, thrift moves beyond the instrumentalities of "more or less" and begs the question: what does it mean and take to thrive? Examining how Americans have answered this question not only provides insight into evolving meanings of material well-being, but also into the changing understandings of the good life and the good society more generally. Thrift and Thriving in America puts thrift in this more expansive light where it reveals its rich and compelling etymology: thrift originally referred to the condition of "thriving." This deeper meaning has always operated as the subtext of thrift and at times has even been invoked to critique more restricted notions of thrift. Second, the idiom of thrift has, in one form or another, served as the primary language for articulating the normative dimensions of economic life throughout much of American history. First, far from the narrow rendering of thrift as a synonym of saving and scrimping, thrift possesses a surprising capaciousness and dynamism. Every day, Thrift ‘n’ Thrive provides job training to residents of Re:Center Ministries who are working hard to overcome homelessness and pursue transformed lives. It has many meanings but generally donates fun, success, happiness and good times. This prestigous bunch of people developed the word during many drunk nights and good times. Underpinning the rich diversity of disciplinary perspectives presented in this volume are two overarching claims. The word thrive originates from a central auckland crew commonly known as the Ultimate Thrivers. "The thrift of the corn in the warm summer sun had transformed the grass-like young plants into strong stalks pendulous with hanging ears, blocking my vision in all directions, amongst which I heard her maddening and mellifluous laugh advancing always just out of reach before me".Thrift and Thriving in America is a collection of groundbreaking essays from leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences on the seminal importance of thrift to American culture and history. The frugality definition of thrift as economic management, economy, sparing us or expenditures of means, frugality, saving is the one with which we are. Presumably the crops could be thriving? Perhaps, Well, a quibble - you've shifted it back to a verb, whereas it's the noun that won't fit in my head. Since NOAD and my etymology dictionary both compare it to thrive, I'll guess an example: "our crop are thrifting this year." That's only a guess, though, since that form is no longer in use.
or being endowed with good luck, good fortune. Probably the earliest meaning of the word thrift was ‘the condition of one who thrives,’ she writes. Both had connotations of abundance, plenty and harmony.
I remembered the nuances of archaic and obsolete and wondered that this sense had no such label - because no senses have this label in the online MW. Sara discovered in her book research that as far back as the 13th century thrift and thrive were almost synonymous. Starting in the 16th century, it also means. Thrifty comes from the word thrive, meaning ‘to prosper,’ Curzan explains. approval They were rightly praised for their thrift and enterprise. Curzan explores the etymology of thrifty to get to the bottom of spendthrift. The older of the two comes from the word ‘thrive’ etymologically, and described thrift as the ability to live well and to flourish, so it’s that sense of human flourishing. Thrift is the quality and practice of being careful with money and not wasting things. New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) doesn't include this definition, and, according to Collins, that form is obsolete (dictionaries sometimes use archaic for old-fashioned and rarely used and obsolete for not used anymore at all). While thrifty refers to being economical with money, spendthrift means the exact oppositesomeone who spends money irresponsibly. Thrift & Thrive is a neighborhood thrift store with an emphasis on green living and community. The meaning you give is the oldest in the print copy (it appears first), and as another commenter pointed out, it has likely been replaced by thrive in modern usage. A little detail worth knowing about Merriam-Webster's dictionaries that you do not see online: they organize their definitions chronologically, with the oldest first.
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