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installment plan

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installment plan
n.
A credit system by which payment for merchandise is made in installments over a fixed period of time.
installment plan esp Canadian, instalment plan
n
(Business / Commerce) the US and Canadian name for hire-purchase
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Noun1.installment planinstallment plan - a system for paying for goods by installments
installment buying, time plan
regular payment - a payment made at regular times
hire-purchase, never-never - installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never"
Translations
installment plan
n (US) → Ratenzahlung f; to buy on the installment plan → auf Raten kaufen


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I give'm fifty down, and the rest installment plan, ten dollars a month.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
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.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
There he settled down with his young wife and began buying a house on the installment plan.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
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