building society

英 [ˈbɪldɪŋ səsaɪəti]

美 [ˈbɪldɪŋ səsaɪəti]

n.  房屋互助协会(提供住房贷款及储蓄服务)

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牛津词典

noun

• 房屋互助协会（提供住房贷款及储蓄服务）
  an organization like a bank that lends money to people who want to buy a house. People also save money with a building society .

柯林斯词典

• 购房互助协会；建屋互助会
  In Britain, abuilding societyis a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest.

英英释义

noun

• British equivalent of United States savings and loan association

双语例句

• We have put a bit of money away in the building society.
  我们已经在建筑协会那里存了点钱。
• The research from the Yorkshire Building Society found many women are making equally conventional choices.
  这项来自约克郡建房合做社的研究同时显示，许多女人和男人一样，都做出了保守的选择。
• He put his savings in a building society.
  他把自己的积蓄投资在房屋互助协会。
• Employees at Nationwide, the UK building society, are similarly enthusiastic.
  对此，全英房屋抵押贷款协会（Nationwide）的雇员也同样热心。
• The building society had to have its pound of flesh and foreclosed on my mortgage when I was only a few months in arrears with the repayments.
  我仅仅拖欠偿还钱款几个月，这个房屋互助协会就来无情地索债，取消了我的抵押品赎回权。
• Interest is a payment to the bank or the building society for lending him the money.
  利息是向借给他钱的银行或建筑团体支付的款项。
• I was in debt with the bank and the building society, but my father helped me in my hour of need and made me an interest-free loan.
  我欠了银行和建屋互助金的债，但我父亲在我困难时给了我帮助，向我提供无息贷款。
• Britain's third largest building society abandoned its mutual status and became a bank.
  英国第三大建屋互助会准备放弃其互助性质，转变为银行。
• The bank have act in unison with the building society in lowering interest rate.
  银行降低了利率来配合房屋建筑协会的行动。
• He holds three different accounts with the same building society.
  他在同一个建房互助会中拥有着三个不同的账户。