Thrift vs Economic - What's the difference?
thrift | economic |
(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
* (rfdate) Spenser
* (Ambrose Bierce)
(countable, US) A savings bank.
(countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria , particularly .
(obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* : Act I, Scene I:
(obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
Pertaining to an economy.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value) ; economical.
Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
' Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.
As a noun thrift
is (uncountable) the characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).As an adjective economic is
economic.thrift
English
(wikipedia thrift)Noun
- His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.
- The rest, willing to fall to thrift , prove very good husbands.
- Usually home mortgages are obtained from thrifts .
- Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.
- I have a mind presages me such thrift .
Synonyms
*(characteristic of using a minimum of something) frugalityAntonyms
* spendthriftDerived terms
* thrifty * thrift shop * thrift storeReferences
economic
English
Alternative forms
* economick (archaic) * (archaic) * (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Usage notes
Modern usage prefers economic' when describing the economy of a region or country (and when referring to personal or family budgeting).' Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.
