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Installment   /ɪnstˈɔlmənt/   Listen
noun
instalment, installment  n.  
1.
The act of installing; installation. "Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law."
2.
The seat in which one is placed. (Obs.) "The several chairs of order, look, you scour;... Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest."
3.
A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times; that portion of a debt payed back in any one payment; as, the next installment is due January first. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.
4.
A part of a broadcast serial.
Synonyms: episode.
5.
A part of a published serial.





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"Installment" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment, like a cat on a fence with a dog on either side. "Could n't we buy it on the installment plan?" ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... the days that followed, the girl strove to accustom herself to the luxury of her surroundings, and to the undreamed of marvels which made for physical comfort and well-being. Each installment of the ample allowance which Mrs. Hawley-Crowles settled upon her seemed a fortune—enough, she thought, to buy the whole town of Simiti! Her gowns seemed woven on fairy looms, and often she would sit for hours, holding them in her lap and reveling ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... 6,000,000 should be received. To prevent the diversion of any part of this sum from the most essential objects, he had concealed the negotiation even from Congress, and had communicated it only to Washington; yet after receiving the first installment it was discovered that Dr. Franklin had anticipated the residue of the loan and had appropriated it to the purposes of the United States. At the commencement of the year 1782 not a dollar remained in the treasury, and although Congress had required the payment of 2,000,000 on the ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
... with a picture of the London and Birmingham Railway Station displaying a first-class passenger with a box seat on the roof of the carriage, and followed by an account of the trip to Boxmoor, the first installment of the London and North-Western Railway. It tells us that, "the time of starting having arrived, the doors of the carriages are closed, and, by the assistance of the conductors, the train is moved on a short distance toward ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various
... specie payment and driven people to refuse United States notes payable on demand without interest. Meantime, the nation's expenses aggregated $2,000,000 a day and the Treasury was empty. "I have been obliged," wrote the Secretary of the Treasury, "to draw for the last installment ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander


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