n.
- the quality of being careful and not wasteful with money and other resources.
- US another term for savings and loan.
- a plant which forms low-growing tufts of slender leaves with rounded pink flower heads, growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains.
[Armeria maritima.]
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘prosperity’): from ON, from thrífa ‘grasp, get hold of’; cf. thrive.