thrifty in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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thrifty <-ier, -iest> [ˈθrɪfti] ADJ

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He required him to be more studious, more thrifty, and demanded a complete list of names of the people with whom he associated.
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In consequence, the breed is sound, long-lived, and thrifty.
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The temple income was small and the family had to be very thrifty.
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He was thrifty as his economy rate of under 2.3 would testify and valued his wicket dearly and was a brilliant fielder.
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Therefore, the thrifty phenotype can be described as a manipulation of offspring phenotype for the benefit of maternal fitness.
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Ten out of the fourteen children in this thrifty, intelligent, religious family lived to the age of twenty-one.
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This paradox generates doubts about whether the thrifty phenotype is adaptive for human offspring.
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This idea is controversial and has been criticised by others that support the original thrifty gene hypothesis.
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However, if selection has only been acting for the past 15,000 years then there has been insufficient time for thrifty genes to spread at all.
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She was thrifty, economical, and she also had the ability to influence people.
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