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

• 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。
• You should put the money in the building society where it will earn interest.
  你应该把钱存在建屋互助会，可以得到利息。
• 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。
• He is a member of the Chinese building society.
  他是中国建筑学会的会员。
• 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。
• 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。
• He had bought his house with the help of a building society.
  他是在建屋互助会的帮助下买下他的房子的。
• When I failed to make my mortgage repayments the building society repossessed my house.
  我不能付清抵押贷款时，建屋互助会收回了我的房子。
• Lord Lawson instances the old Halifax building society, which in its heyday channelled savings from the north of the UK to the more free-spending south.
  劳森爵士举了古老的哈利法克斯建房互助社（HalifaxBuildingSociety）的例子。在鼎盛时期，该协会将储蓄从英国北部地区导向花费更随意的南方。