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BUILDING SOCIETY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does building society mean?
• BUILDING SOCIETY (noun)
The noun BUILDING SOCIETY has 1 sense:
1. British equivalent of United States savings and loan association
Familiarity information: BUILDING SOCIETY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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