Household management; housewifery. Also in later use: the role or status of housewife.

Careful management; employment of a thing sparingly and to the best advantage; frugality, providence, thrift, economy. Cf. housewifery, n. 1b.

The quality of being frugal or saving; economy, good husbandry: cf. thrift, n.1 3.

Economical management, economy; sparing use or careful expenditure of means; frugality, saving; †euphemistically, parsimony, niggardliness (obsolete).

The quality of managing resources with skill and economy to avoid undue waste; thrift, economy. Also in extended use. Now rare.

housewifely character; an instance of this.

Careful management (of anything); economical or thrifty administration; the action of saving or storing something up.

Management; economy.

The judicious use of resources; thrift, economy.

Careful or economical management.

The careful management of resources; sparingness. Esp. with reference to money and material wealth: frugality, thrift, saving; (sometimes euphemistic…

Meanness, stinginess, parsimoniousness. Also: frugality, thrift.