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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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