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THRIFT INSTITUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thrift institution mean?
• THRIFT INSTITUTION (noun)
The noun THRIFT INSTITUTION has 1 sense:
1. a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying
Familiarity information: THRIFT INSTITUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("thrift institution" is a kind of...):
bank; banking company; banking concern; depository financial institution (a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrift institution"):
savings and loan; savings and loan association (a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages)
savings bank (a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks)
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