building society

British  

noun

1. a cooperative organization that accepts deposits of money from savers and uses them to make loans, secured by mortgages, to house buyers. Since 1986 they have been empowered to offer banking services

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building society

Judge Petts said Kershaw had harmed people's trust in bank and building society staff and he had no alternative but to send her straight to prison.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

However, late last year, the UK's biggest building society, the Nationwide, pledged to keep all of its 696 branches open until at least 2030, although it too has closed branches in the past.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Last year, a Nationwide advert featuring actor Dominic West that claimed the building society was not closing branches was banned.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

The UK bank and building society sector has seen widespread branch closures in recent years, as many customers have switched to online and mobile banking.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Every bank, and brewery, and building society in the world might go into liquidation at once for aught he cared.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane