BUILDING SOCIETY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

British equivalent of United States savings and loan association

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("building society" is a kind of...):

savings and loan; savings and loan association (a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages)

Credits