savings and loan association

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

savings and loan association
    n 1: a thrift institution that is required by law to make a
         certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages [syn:
         {savings and loan}, {savings and loan association}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "savings and loan association":
      Bank of England, Bank of France, Federal Reserve bank,
      International Monetary Fund, Lombard Street bank, Swiss bank,
      World Bank, bank, branch bank, central bank, clearing house,
      commercial bank, credit union, farm loan bank, federal land bank,
      finance company, finance corporation, hock shop, investment bank,
      lending institution, member bank, moneyed corporation,
      mortgage company, mutual savings bank, national bank,
      nonmember bank, pawnbroker, pawnbrokery, pawnshop, reserve bank,
      savings bank, state bank, trust company