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installment buying

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  1. Purchasing a commodity over a period of time. The buyer gains the use of the commodity immediately and then pays for it in periodic payments called installments.

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As insurance against a future turn for the worse, they also recommended price, wage and rationing controls and restored curbs on installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automobile installment credit, the largest single category of installment buying, failed to make a gain over the previous month for the first time in two years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The picture is much the same in home mortgages, installment buying and personal loans.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into the American economy thus came the now-familiar installment buying.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers

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