thrift institution

English Thesaurus

1. a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying (noun.group)

hypernym	:	bank, banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution,
definition	:	a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities (noun.group)

hyponym	:	savings and loan, savings and loan association,
definition	:	a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages (noun.group)

hyponym	:	savings bank,
definition	:	a thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks (noun.group)