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Plural of thrift

regular plural

The plural of thrift is thrifts.

Forms of thrift

Singularthrift /ˈθɹɪft/
Pluralthrifts
Countablecountable and uncountable

Thrifts in a sentence

  • Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.
  • For banking institutions, nonamortizing assets (particularly commercial loans) are considerably more important than they are for thrifts.1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, The state of the banking industry and the Bank…. From the entry nonamortizing
  • The quarterly analysis looks at delinquency rates for five of the largest investor groups: FDIC-insured banks and thrifts, commercial mortgage-backed securities, life insurance companies, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.2023 June 2, Anna Bahney, “Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquencies rose in the first part of 2023”, in CNN. From the entry Fannie Mae

Meaning of thrift

  1. noun The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
  2. noun A savings bank.
  3. noun Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.

Full definition of thrift

Questions about the plural of thrift

What is the plural of thrift?
The plural of thrift is thrifts.
Is thrift countable?
Thrift is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrift (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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