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

• They find a house, agree a price, and take out a mortgage through their building society.
  他们找到一处房子，谈妥价格，通过住房互助协会办理了抵押贷款。
• 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。
• 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。
• The building society has approved their mortgage application.
  购房互助协会批准了他们抵押贷款的申请。
• 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。
• British television soap Coronation Street becomes the first prime time television show in the UK to use product placement after signing a deal with the Nationwide Building Society.
  英国电视肥皂加冕街将成为第一个电视台黄金时段表明对英国使用产品安置在签署了一个处理在全国建设社会。
• Building society repossessions have frightened buyers off
  建屋互助协会收回未偿清房贷的住房，这吓退了很多买家。
• The only stipulation the building society makes is that house must be insured.
  建屋互助会作出的唯一规定是房屋必须保险。
• 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。
• 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。