mutual savings bank

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noun

a noncapitalized savings bank that distributes its net earnings to depositors.

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Words nearby mutual savings bank

mutuality, mutualize, mutually, mutually exclusive, mutual resistance, mutual savings bank, mutuel, mutule, muumuu, muxe, Muybridge

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How to use mutual savings bank in a sentence

He knew I loved him like a big brother, and I knew the feeling was mutual.
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One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.
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A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
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But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
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And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
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Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
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Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.
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The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
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British Dictionary definitions for mutual savings bank

mutual savings bank

noun

mainly US a savings bank having no subscribed capital stock and distributing all available net profit to depositors who, however, remain creditors without voting power

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