building society

Noun

 * 1)  A type of financial institution which traditionally was based on lending money (as mortgages) to society members to buy houses, from other members' pooled savings and/or money borrowed wholesale.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 建房互助會
 * Finnish: hypoteekkiyhdistys
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: οικοδομικός συνεταιρισμός
 * Japanese: 住宅金融組合
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: строи́тельное о́бщество, строи́тельная сберега́тельная ка́сса
 * Spanish: sociedad de préstamo inmobiliario