adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
genotype
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The thrifty genotype hypothesis and its implications for the study of complex disorders in man.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By being thrifty and shopping wisely you can feed an entire family on as little as $100 a week.
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Cutting taxes on savings may persuade Americans to be more thrifty .
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Mrs Jones was a very thrifty woman who never wasted anything.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An enterprise economy rewards the industrious and thrifty .
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Critics fear that adhoc boards, neither accountable nor thrifty , will proliferate.
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Don Perata, D-Oakland, became the most recent, proposing legislation to reward thrifty power users this summer.
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He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer.
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Plenty of people, particularly the thrifty sort, may mourn the plants' early passing.
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She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty , and ill-read, and genteel.
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There are many good books on the subject of being thrifty and stretching your resources.