Noun

(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).

His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.

* (rfdate) Spenser

The rest, willing to fall to thrift , prove very good husbands.

* (Ambrose Bierce)

(countable, US) A savings bank.

Usually home mortgages are obtained from thrifts .

(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)

Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.

* : Act I, Scene I:

I have a mind presages me such thrift .

(obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

Noun

(en noun)

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.

* Rambler

Let no man anticipate uncertain profits .

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(dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.

* Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35

This I speak for your own profit .

* Shakespeare

if you dare do yourself a profit and a right

(legal) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).