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单词 building society
释义
building society
noun[C]
UK
uk
/ˈbɪl.dɪŋ səˌsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/ˈbɪl.dɪŋ səˌsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
(USsavings and loan association)
abusinessthatlendsyoumoneyif youwanttobuyahouse, orpaysyouinterestonmoneyyouinvestthere
（提供住房贷款及储蓄服务的）房屋互助协会
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Borrowing & lending
(Definition ofbuilding societyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Friendly societies have largely taken to investing their surplus funds in loans to members on the building society principle.
  • In Victoria, Australia, a crisis occurred, in which many building societies suffered severely.
  • It is difficult to over-estimate the social value of the work that has been done by building societies.
  • The colonist is very fond of living in his own house and on his own bit of ground, and building societies and the extensive mortgage system which prevails enable him easily to gratify this desire.
  • The result was to weaken confidence in building societies generally, and this was very marked in the rapid decline of the amount of the capital of the incorporated building societies.

building society| Business English

building society
noun[C]
FINANCE,BANKING
uk
us
(USSavings and Loan Association)
in the UK, anorganizationsimilarto abankwhichprovidesfinancialservicesincludingsavingsaccountsandmortgages(=loanstobuyhouses):
Interest will betaxedonbankandbuildingsocietyaccounts.
(Definition ofbuilding societyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbuilding society

building society
She institutes a series of lectures for working people and establishes a localbuildingsociety.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Once abuildingsocietyhas converted to a bank, the new company is obliged to issue certificates to its shareholders, unless the shares are dematerialised.
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To use the analogy of a house purchase, thebuildingsocietyprovides the finance, but the house purchaser provides the funding.
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I see no difference in the service that that bank now offers compared with the service offered when it was abuildingsociety.
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Many of those people have no interest in the community in which, very often, thebuildingsocietyoriginated.
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There is the factor of the interest rates, which affects not only local authority housing butbuildingsocietymortgages, and therefore private housing.
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In many ways he resembles the person who puts money into abuildingsocietyfor the time being.
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Hence, they neither have the large deposits which are necessary in the case ofbuildingsocietymortgages, nor can they afford the large repayments.
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Thebuildingsocietyfrom which they obtained a mortgage made all the necessary inquiries.
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The standard interest rate is based on the weighted average of basicbuildingsocietyinterest rates.
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People who choose to have their pensions paid into a bank orbuildingsocietywill not be affected by this change.
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Buildingsocietyrepossession statistics are not available on a regional basis.
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Thebuildingsocietydeposits are high, small savings are high, the gilt-edged markets are not bad, and so on.
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There has been no reply to the official receiver's inquiries of thebuildingsocietyfrom which the mortgage was obtained, or from another finance company.
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I told them to go to abuildingsocietyto see if they would help.
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