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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

The directive, which outlawed military "installment buying" for all services, will hit the Air Force hardest.

From Time Magazine Archive

To curb the country's 8.3% inflation, controls have also been put on private lending, investment and installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

With loans suddenly more costly, housing sales began to suffer, as did 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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