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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

More immediate cause of American Piano's difficulty however, is installment buying, which while it has helped to sell pianos has not added any appreciable amount to their working capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Easing up on Regulation W, which restricts installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soviet citizens next month will be able to sample that old staple of the U.S. consumer: installment buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is for them to provide facilities for the transaction of business, cash money, credit instruments, installment buying, means for changing money, insurance, discounting facilities.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

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