| 词汇 | thrift-institution |
| 释义 | thrift institution noun[ C ] BANKING, PROPERTYukus(alsothrift) in the US, a type of bank that allows you to save money or borrow money to buy a house: Thrift institution is a general term for savings banks and savings and loan associations. These days, thrifts place most of their money into boring but safe mortgages. Examples of thrift institutionthrift institution It is also, and to a very large extent, a small savings or thriftinstitution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because subprime loans have such high repayment risk, the origination of large volumes of subprime loans by thrift institutions or commercial banks was not possible without securitization. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Indeed, the company actually prospered in those years by concentrating on what thrift institutions were chartered to do: take in savings and provide loans to people buying homes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They want it to be, for preference, a higher rate than that of any of the other thrift institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are great thrift institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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