- a variation of installment.
instalment
1 Britishnoun
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one of the portions, usually equal, into which a debt is divided for payment at specified intervals over a fixed period
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a portion of something that is issued, broadcast, or published in parts, such as a serial in a magazine
noun
Etymology
Origin of instalment
C18: from obsolete estallment, probably from Old French estaler to fix, hence to agree rate of payment, from estal something fixed, place, from Old High German stal stall 1
Example Sentences
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Cooper, who underwent the first stage of surgery on Thursday, will be replaced by Brian O'Connell on Last Instalment.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2014
Fenton's duo, alongside Cheltenham Gold Cup possible First Instalment, were cleared to run at the meeting after passing dope tests carried out at their Tipperary stables by the British Horseracing Authority.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2014
Some 1,800 bankers gathered last week at the annual National Instalment Credit Conference in Chicago searching for new prescriptions to satisfy the U.S. consumer's insatiable craving for credit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Bureau published The Statistical Pattern of Instalment Debt, a 23-page pamphlet, which told the results of the study of non-relief families in 1935-36.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instalment to Government 80 Shingle-house 400 Furniture 100 Barns and sheds 400 Ten acres clearing 160 Oxen 80 Cow 20 Pigs and poultry 20 Plough, harrow, etcetera.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
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