thrift institution(n = noun.group) Array - a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying; Array
is a kind of bank, banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution
has particulars: savings and loan, savings and loan association, savings bank

correctional institution, depository financial institution, educational institution, financial institution, institution, lending institution, medical institution, mental institution, nondepository financial institution, penal institution, thrift, thrift shop