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installment

ins·tall·ment

UK/ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ US/ɪnˈstoːl.mənt/ uncommon obsolete us

noun

1.

a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals

2.
3.

a part of a published serial

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4.

the act of installing something (as equipment)

  • “the telephone installation took only a few minutes”
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Origin

A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“fix payments”), from Old French estal (“fixed position”), from Old High German stal (“stall", "standing place”) The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

Phrases

  • installment loan
  • installment plan

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