building society

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   British equivalent of United States savings and loan association

   Broadersavings and loan

Questions about building society

What does building society mean?

building society means "British equivalent of United States savings and loan association".

Is building society a common word?

building society is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.