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building societies

building societies is the plural of building society.

Meaning of building society

Noun

building society (plural building societies)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A type of financial institution which traditionally was based on lending money (as mortgages) to society members to purchase houses, from the pooled savings of other members or money borrowed wholesale.

Questions about building societies

What is building societies the plural of?
Building societies is the plural of building society.

Words near building societies in the dictionary

  1. building paper
  2. building permit
  3. building permits
  4. building site
  5. building sites
  6. building societies
  7. building society
  8. building the plane while flying it
  9. building up
  10. building upon
  11. building worker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: building societies (page history and authors); building society (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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