caisse populaire [< Cdn F, lit., "peoples' bank"]
a credit union.
- 1958  Three men escaped with an estimated $10,000 in cash after holding up the Sacred Heart Caisse Populaire. . . .
- 1963  His first objective was to get Quebeckers' savings out of the mattress, and in particular out of the province's 1,270 caisses populaires, a group of credit unions whose assets total $990 million.