installment buying
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To curb the country's 8.3% inflation, controls have also been put on private lending, investment and installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1930 many a prophet predicted that bad times would kill installment buying, but C. I. T. flourished throughout Depression, last year cashed in on motor recovery.
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
As the recession picked up momentum in early '58, the fear was that installment buying would plummet and, with a wave of repossessions by finance companies, pull the economy down farther.
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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