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installment
/ˌɪnˈstɔlmənt/
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What does installment mean?
noun
- One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
- Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), and payment of which takes place at regular intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
- A part of a published or broadcast serial.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The act of installing; installation.
- (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
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IPA pronunciation
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Then, at last, after a world of anticipation, came her first installment of one hundred and fifty dollars.
And then again, when they went to pay their January’s installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if they had had the insurance attended to yet.
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We early found ourselves spending many hours in efforts to secure support for deserted women, insurance for bewildered widows, damages for injured operators, furniture from the clutches of the installment store.
Stealthily she arrives, discovers the fat pile and, hailing as treasure trove this provender whereof her race perhaps has never made use before, entrusts to it an installment of her family.
They went clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and passed on.