National Savings Bank

British  

noun

1. (in Britain) a government savings bank, run through the post office, esp for small savers

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Example Sentences

The National Savings Bank of Belgium is empowered to lend money to working men for buying or building houses and to insure the lives of those doing so, to preserve the home for the family.

From Project Gutenberg

The policy adopted after 1890 of incorporating in the ordinary budget the expenditure on war, marine and public works, each under its own head, rendered the “extraordinary budget” obsolete, but there are still, besides the ordinary budget, budgets annexes, comprising the credits voted to certain establishments under state supervision, e.g. the National Savings Bank, state railways, &c.

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Kelimbetov, a former economy minister who is well respected in foreign banking circles, said it was too early to talk about how much state owned Sberbank -- Russia's national savings bank -- could pay for a stake in BTA.

From Reuters

The national savings bank would be the only safe resting-place for Robert Gloucester’s money.

From Project Gutenberg

The government would back him and he could borrow money from the national savings bank system.

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