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How to pronounce “thrift”
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Pronunciation guide for thrift
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of thrift with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Housing Works
And she says, I want you to open a thrift store for people
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
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How to pronounce thrift
Housing Works
And she says, I want you to open a thrift store for people
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “thrift”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
- (countable, US) A savings bank.
- (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
- (obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
- (obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To shop or browse at a thrift shop; to buy (something) at a thrift shop.
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