loan society
loan society (1)信用互助会；贷款互助协会 指由个人组成的、为其成员或他人提供贷款的协会。 (→building and loan association) (2) 〈英〉贷款协会；金融协会 一种为了给工业界筹集贷款资金而成立的俱乐部。
LOAN SOCIETY
loan society
loan society. English law. A club organized to collect deposits from and make loans to industrial workers. • The loan societies were forerunners of the American savings-and-loan associations.