in·stall·ment¹

also in·stal·ment (ĭn-stôl′mənt)

1. One of a number of successive payments in settlement of a debt.

a. A portion of something, such as a publication, issued at intervals.

b. A chapter or part of a literary work presented serially.

[Alteration of obsolete estallment, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French estaler, to place, fix, from estal, place, of Germanic origin; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

in·stall·ment²

also in·stal·ment (ĭn-stôl′mənt)

See installation.

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in•stall•ment¹

or in•stal•ment

(ɪnˈstɔl mənt)

n.

1. any of several parts into which a debt or other sum is divided for payment at successive fixed times.

2. a single portion of something issued in parts at successive times: a magazine serial in six installments.

[1725–35; in-² + (e)stallment <estall to make payments on an installment plan]

in•stall•ment²

or in•stal•ment

(ɪnˈstɔl mənt)

n.

1. the act of installing.

2. the fact of being installed; installation.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	installment - a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals payment - a sum of money paid or a claim discharged
	2.	installment - a part of a broadcast serial instalment, episode broadcast, program, programme - a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" serial, series - a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" cliffhanger - an episode that ends in suspense
	3.	installment - a part of a published serial instalment text, textual matter - the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" fascicle, fascicule - an installment of a printed work serial publication, serial, series - a periodical that appears at scheduled times
	4.	installment - the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" installation, installing, instalment commencement, start, beginning - the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"

Translations

دُفْعَةٌ

splátka

afdrag

maksuerä

rata

分割払い

할부금

nadaljevanjeobrok

avbetalning

เงินที่จ่ายเป็นงวด

taksit

phần trả góp

分期付款

installment

→ دُفْعَةٌ splátka afdrag Rate δόση plazo maksuerä versement partiel rata rata 分割払い 할부금 afbetalingstermijn avdrag rata prestação взнос avbetalning เงินที่จ่ายเป็นงวด taksit phần trả góp 分期付款

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Only, you must wait until my next installment is due, my angel of a Barbara.

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I give'm fifty down, and the rest installment plan, ten dollars a month.

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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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There he settled down with his young wife and began buying a house on the installment plan.

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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.

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The Age of Innocence first appeared in four large installments in The Pictorial Review, from July to October 1920.

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He composed slowly and carefully but did not revise greatly, and generally published by monthly installments in periodicals which, latterly, he himself established and edited.

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I go there every year shooting, and your forest's worth a hundred and fifty roubles and acre paid down, while he's giving you sixty by installments. So that in fact you're making him a present of thirty thousand."

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{another number = in the Graham's Magazine periodical version, not divided into chapters, this paragraph closed the first of the four installments in which the story was printed; in later book versions it was changed to read "in the next chapter"}

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At the same time, I sensibly guarded against even the most improbable accidents, by making him pay me the fifty pounds as we went on, by installments. We had ten sittings.

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After the discovery of the embalming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curiosity might be gratified, and, at the same time, the interests of science much advanced, by living this natural term in installments. In the case of history, indeed, experience demonstrated that something of this kind was indispensable.

"The long duration of human life in your time, together with the occasional practice of passing it, as you have explained, in installments, must have had, indeed, a strong tendency to the general development and conglomeration of knowledge.

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