installment

[ in-stawl-muhnt ]

/ ɪnˈstɔl mənt /

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noun

Finance. any of several parts into which a debt or other sum payable is divided for payment at successive fixed times; the scheduled periodic payment made on an installment loan: to pay for furniture in monthly installments.

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

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Also especially British, in·stal·ment .

Origin of installment

First recorded in 1770–75; in-² + obsolete (e)stallment, equivalent to estall “to arrange payment on an installment plan” (perhaps from Anglo-French ) + -ment

OTHER WORDS FROM installment

re·in·stall·ment; especially British, re·in·stal·ment, noun

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instal, install, installant, installation, installation art, installment, installment buying, installment loan, installment plan, instalment, Instamatic

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installment²

or in·stal·ment

[ in-stawl-muhnt ]

/ ɪnˈstɔl mənt /

noun

the act of installing.

the fact of being installed; installation.

Origin of installment

First recorded in 1580–90; install + -ment

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In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Cardozo School of Law professor and ABC News contributor Kate Shaw discusses that evidence and its legal ramifications.
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Tia Mitchell of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution joins this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast to discuss what to expect.
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In this installment of Model Talk on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke look back at the results of those runoffs and discuss what the Democratic wins say about polling and what they mean for elections going forward.
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Mainstream news sources are reporting, and in some cases fueling, the latest installment of the “reading wars.”
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Follett is out this fall with his final installment of an historical fiction trilogy that races through the 20th century.
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Well talking about big movies, you've been cast to play Apollo Creed's grandson in a new Rocky franchise installment.
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In a gush of pro-America, anti–Soviet Union glory, the fourth installment in the Rocky saga pulls out all the stops.
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The casting of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII is shaping up to be it's own, multi-installment odyssey.
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The two-time Oscar winner is the villain in the next installment of the Call of Duty video game series.
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What general ledger controlling accounts of the installment ledger are necessary?
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 1|Various
For a time the installment of self-government thus granted satisfied the people.
The Canadian Dominion|Oscar D. Skelton
Very few letters will sell articles costing as much as fifty dollars unless perhaps the payments are on the installment plan.
How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters)|Mary Owens Crowther
Any postponement, total or partial, of any installment falling due after 1926 for a period exceeding three years.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII|Various
The first installment covers about the first twenty-one years of Lincoln's life, which were spent in Kentucky and Indiana.
McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2|Various

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or in·stal·ment

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