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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THRIFT ,

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ECONOMY

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PERSONAL

personal or domestic

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EXPENDITURE

expenditure, the

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HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and practice of saving, careful or frugal management in

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MONEY

money matters . The word, which is borrowed from Scandinavian

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LANGUAGES

languages, meant the

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CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of one who thrives or prospers (M . Eng. thriven, Icel. thrifa, to clutch, seize, Norw. triva, seize) .

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