| 词汇 | building-society |
| 释义 | building society noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ səˌsaɪ.ə.ti/ us /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ səˌsaɪ.ə.t̬i/(USsavings and loan association) a business that lends you money if you want to buy a house, or pays you interest on money you invest there（提供住房贷款及储蓄服务的）房屋互助协会 Banks anti-city apex bank bank balance bank manager bank statement banker cash cash drawer challenger bank investment bank lender online banking open an account pay something in pin quantitative easing statement the Bank of England the Square Mile You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Borrowing & lending 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 Englishbuilding society noun[ C ] FINANCE, BANKINGukus(USSavings and Loan Association) in the UK, an organization similar to a bank which provides financial services including savings accounts and mortgages(= loans to buy houses): Interest will be taxed on bank and building society accounts. Examples of building societybuilding society She institutes a series of lectures for working people and establishes a local buildingsociety. Once a buildingsociety has converted to a bank, the new company is obliged to issue certificates to its shareholders, unless the shares are dematerialised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To use the analogy of a house purchase, the buildingsociety provides the finance, but the house purchaser provides the funding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I see no difference in the service that that bank now offers compared with the service offered when it was a buildingsociety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of those people have no interest in the community in which, very often, the buildingsociety originated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the factor of the interest rates, which affects not only local authority housing but buildingsociety mortgages, and therefore private housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In many ways he resembles the person who puts money into a buildingsociety for the time being. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hence, they neither have the large deposits which are necessary in the case of buildingsociety mortgages, nor can they afford the large repayments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The buildingsociety from which they obtained a mortgage made all the necessary inquiries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The standard interest rate is based on the weighted average of basic buildingsociety interest rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who choose to have their pensions paid into a bank or buildingsociety will not be affected by this change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Buildingsociety repossession statistics are not available on a regional basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The buildingsociety deposits are high, small savings are high, the gilt-edged markets are not bad, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been no reply to the official receiver's inquiries of the buildingsociety from which the mortgage was obtained, or from another finance company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I told them to go to a buildingsociety to see if they would help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of building society These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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