- Look up
thrift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Thrift may
refer to:
Frugality Thrift shop or
charity shop A
savings and loan ****ociation in the United...
- the
savings and loan ****ociations (S&Ls or
thrifts) in the
United States between 1986 and 1995.
These thrifts were
banks that
historically specialized in...
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ThriftBooks is a
large web-based used
bookseller headquartered near Seattle, Washington.
ThriftBooks
sells used books, Blu-ray discs, DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes...
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increased the
proportion of ****ets that
thrifts could hold in
consumer and
commercial real
estate loans and
allowed thrifts to
invest 5
percent of
their ****ets...
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beyond their means.
Spendthrift derives from an
obsolete sense of the word
thrift to mean
prosperity rather than frugality, so a "spendthrift" is one who...
- of
federal thrifts were once
confined primarily to
taking deposits from
consumers and
making residential mortgage loans,
federal thrifts are now authorized...
- and nationally-chartered
thrifts. It was
abolished and su****ded by the
Federal Housing Finance Board and the
Office of
Thrift Supervision in 1989 due...
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Thrift is an IDL (Interface
Definition Language) and
binary communication protocol used for
defining and
creating services for
programming languages. It...
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responsible for
resolving failed thrifts.
Supervision of
thrifts became the
responsibility of a new agency, the
Office of
Thrift Supervision (credit unions...
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Armeria maritima, the
thrift, sea
thrift or sea pink, is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Plumbaginaceae. It is a
compact evergreen perennial...
