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Definition: Installment |
InstallmentNoun1. A payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals. 2. A part of a broadcast serial. 3. A part of a published serial. 4. The act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "installment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Note: Installment \In*stall"ment\, noun. [Written also instalment.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | The regular, periodic payment that a borrower agrees to make to a lender to repay a debt. (references) |
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Synonyms: InstallmentSynonyms: episode (n), installation (n), installing (n), instalment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expenditure | Pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment. |
Part | Piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle; (smallness); installment, dividend; share; (allotment). |
Payment | Ready money; (cash); stake, remittance, installment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Installment |
| English words defined with "installment": carrying charge, convenience ♦ fascicle, fascicule ♦ Handsel ♦ Reinstallment ♦ sales finance company ♦ tallyman. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "installment": acceleration clause, AUDIT-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ dealer paper ♦ Expenditures ♦ serial. (references) |
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Screenplays | Actually, I'm committing suicide on the installment plan (Habit; writing credit: Larry Fessenden) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Last Installment (1945) | |
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 | Eric Hutchins of NOAA examines the initial phase of the installment of the Alaskan Steep Pass Ladder. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Suicide on the installment plan. : Call: 800-COCAINE. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Didn't you buy the piano player on the installment plan?. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Media Overload" by Erik Dungan Commentary: "This is my daughter viewing an art installment at a modern art museum. The colors could be better, but I thought the image could make an interesting statement regarding children and the media." |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. |
Quentin Crisp | An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | To be delivered forthwith a covering undertaking in writing to issue when, but not until, the Commission is satisfied that Germany can meet such interest and sinking fund obligations, a further installment of 40,000,000,000 Marks gold 5 per cent. bearer bonds, the time and mode of payment of principal and interest to be determined by the Commission. (reference) |
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Business | Alternatively, equipment may be delivered to a Russian leasing company pursuant to an installment sale arrangement. (references) | |
The company has, however, during 25 years been involved in the installment of technical systems at most Swedish airports. (references) | ||
For custom-made furniture usually 50 percent of the cost is paid up front and the rest is divided over three to four installment payments prior to delivery. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | The key problem is the lack of purchasing power of consumers, plus the lack of consumer credit for installment purchases. (references) |
Ukraine | In February 1999, the Cabinet of Ministers amended the rules on installment payments in order to increase consumer demand for products of long-term use. (references) | |
Ukraine | The demand for quality products and customer support is becoming stronger, which has driven companies to emphasize quality, after-sale service, installment payments, and other sales service practices. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | The first installment was $66 million, and the first program review is scheduled for February 2002. (references) |
Philippines | In January 2001 Filipinos made history with "People Power Two," the non-violent ouster of President Joseph Estrada and the installment of then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as his successor. (references) | |
ROMANIA | After long negotiations, the previous government concluded with the IMF a new stand-by loan worth $535 million, the first installment ($73 million) of which was released in August 1999. A second tranche was released in June 2000 after significant delay, but the program expired in February 2001 without any more disbursements. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | For example, some large Swiss banks have subsidiaries engaged in leasing and factoring, bill discounting, installment purchase, and international trade finance. (references) |
Barbados | Other financial institutions, such as local finance houses and trust companies, offer a range of services, such as leasing, installment purchase loans, factoring, and hire purchase. (references) | |
Ireland | Examples include wholesale and corporate banking, installment credit and leasing, capital market activities and, particularly for banks in the IFSC, international and investment banking. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read them. A synposis of the entire work would be still better. The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The mode thus adopted of receiving the installment was officially made known to the French Government by the American charge d'affaires at Paris, pursuant to instructions from the Department of State. |
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| "Installment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Installment" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "installment": buy on the installment plan ♦ first installment ♦ installment buying ♦ installment credit ♦ installment debt ♦ installment loan ♦ installment plan ♦ installment rate ♦ installment sale ♦ installment selling ♦ land installment contract ♦ payment of an installment. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "installment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | instalim (cabling, installation, instalment, location, mounting), vendosje (disposal, disposition, elicitation, emplacement, erection, establishment, installation, instalment, location, mounting, placement, placing, putting, ranking, situation, stowage), vënie (infliction, installation, instalment, mounting, overlap). (various references) | |
Arabic | قسط (instalment, measure, quantity, ration), حلقة من كتاب مسلسل (instalment), حلقة (circle, coterie, fake, instalment, ring), تقسيط (instalment), جدولة (instalment, listing, staggering, tabulation), دفعة (batch, class, impulse, instalment, pay, payment), دفع مال (instalment, pay, payment). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свезка (fascicle, fascicule, instalment), частично плащане (instalment), част от нещо (instalment), вноска (fee, instalment, payment), пратка (instalment, packet, parcel, shipment). (various references) | |
Chinese | 就职 (inaugural, instalment), 分期付款 . (various references) | |
Czech | splátka (instalment, payment, repayment), sešit (book, copybook, exercise book, instalment, Jotter, notebook), dosazení (inductance, instalment). (various references) | |
Danish | aftale om(senere)overdragelse ved skøde (contract for deed, land installment contract), afbetaling (installment payment). (various references) | |
Dutch | halfjaarlijkse betalingstermijn (biannual installment, half-yearly installment, six-monthly installment), eindoplevering (contract for deed, land installment contract), eerste gedeelte van het contingent (first installment of the quota), afbetaling (acquittal, full payment, installment payment, payment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | partpago (installment payment). (various references) | |
Farsi | قسط(instalment), بخش (Borough, Branch, Canton, Commune, County, Department, District, Division, Item, Leg, Lot, Member, Parcel, Parish, Part, Party, Piece, Portion, Precinct, Quarter, Role, Sect, Section, Sector, Segment, Share, Zone). (various references) | |
Finnish | omistusoikeuden pidätys (contract for deed, land installment contract). (various references) | |
French | versement partiel (installments, repayment by instalments), versement (inpayment), tranche, paiement, fascicule, acompte (first instalment, initial deposit, installment payment, instalment), épisode, échelonnement. (various references) | |
German | teilzahlung (hire purchase, instalment, part payment, payment by instalment), rate (instalment, rate, rates), Abschlagzahlung. (various references) | |
Greek | εγκαθίδρυση (establishment, inauguration, induction, installation, instalment), δόση πληρωμήσ (instalment), δόση (dosage, dose, instalment, potion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תשלום לשעורין, שעור (coordinate, estimation, lesson, limit, measure, norm, pitch, portion, proportion, rate, ratio, size), חלק (blank, even, fate, flat, fraction, glace, level, lot, part, partition, portion, section, share, slick, smooth, soft), המשך (continuance, continuation, prolongation, resumption, sequel, sequence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részletfizetés (instalment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengangsur (pay in installment), cicil (pay in installment). (various references) | |
Italian | rata (instalment, rate), quota (altitude, article, contribution, dimension, dues, fee, height, instalment, portion, price, quota, share), puntata (bet, flying visit, injection, instalment, prick, stab, stake), pagamento a rate (installment payment), fascicolo (booklet, brief, brochure, dossier, exercise-book, fascicle, file, folder, instalment, issue, notebook, number), dispensa (dispensation, distribution, exemption, exoneration, instalment, larder, pantry, part, storeroom), acconto (account, advance, deposit, instalment, part payment, prepaywnent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掛金 (bill, premium), 掛け金 (bill, latch, premium), インスタント食品 (incense, incentive, incentive sale, incest, insecurity, inside slider, insole, inspection, inspector, inspiration, install, installation, installer, instant, instant foods, instep kick, instinct, institution, instruction, instructions, instructor, instrument panel, inter high school, inter seminar, intercept, interceptor, interchange, intercollegiate, intercourse, intercut, international, International Baccalaureat, internationalism, internetwork, internetworking, interoperability, interstate highway, interval, interval training, the Internet), 一回分 (dose). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かけきん (bet, bill, premium, stakes), いっかいぶん (dose), インストールメント . (various references) | |
Korean | 부금 (instalment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | installmentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quota (dues, instalment, quota, share), prestação (instalment, render), número (amount, cipher, copy, digit, figure, instalment, item, number, numeral, quantity, size), fascículo (folder, instalment), cota (allotment, dues, elevation, fee, height, instalment, quota, subscription). (various references) | |
Romanian | vãrsãmânt (payment), ratã, platã în rate (never-never, payment in instalments), fascicul (bunch, fascicle, pack). (various references) | |
Russian | очередной взнос (instalment). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rata (instalment), nastavak (extension, follow up, imp, instalment, sequel, suffix). (various references) | |
Spanish | instalación (induction, installation, plant, setting up), venta (close out, disposal, inn, instalment, sale, sales, the sale, vending), plazo (advance notice, date, instalment, notice, respite, term, time, time limit, tour), pago (acquittal, acquittance, area, country, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, discharge, dividend, divvy, do I pay, estate, f, fee, indemnification, instalment, pay out, paying, payment, payoff, price, property, region, repayment, settlement, settling, village, wage, zone), gasto (disbursement, edition, expenditure, expense, instalment, output, spending, version), entrega (commitment, dedication, deliverance, delivery, devotion, enthusiasm, fascicule, handing over, importation, instalment, number, part, post, presentation, service, serving, surrender). (various references) | |
Swedish | del (article, end, episode, fraction, instalment, member, part, Parthian, partition, piece, portion, section, segment, share, volume), avsnitt (article, clause, episode, instalment, paragraph, part, passage, section, sector, stage, stretch), avbetalning (acquittal, full payment, instalment, never-never, payment), amortering (amortization, instalment). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerleştirme (emplacement, installation, instalment, location, placement, settlement), tesisat (fitment, fitting, fixture, installation, instalment), taksit (hire purchase, instalment), kurma (building, constitution, construction, contrivance, erecting, erection, establishment, forming, foundation, hatcher, hatching, installation, instalment, institution, promotion, wind, winding up), bölüm (Cantle, category, chapter, class, compartment, department, desk, division, episode, fraction, fragment, instalment, part, portion, quotient, section, segment, septum, sequence, side, squad), atama (appointment, assignation, assignment, commission, cooptation, co-optation, creation, designation, installation, instalment, institution, investiture, investment, nomination, placement, posting, preferment), üs (base, basis, exponent, installation, instalment, power, station). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | окремий випуск (instalment), партія товару (instalment, parcel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phần cung cấp mỗi lần (instalment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old High German | 500-1100 | stal. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | estal. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "installment": installments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "installment": noninstallment. (additional references) | |
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"Installment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: installement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "installment" (pronounced i'nstô"lmunt) |
| 5 | -l m u n t | ailment, annulment, battlement, concealment, curtailment, derailment, disgruntlement, dismantlement, embezzlement, encirclement, enrollment, entanglement, entitlement, fulfillment, puzzlement, resettlement, settlement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enslavement, entertainment, enticement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: instalment. | |
-2 letters: mentalist. | |
-3 letters: ailments, aliments, linesman, maltiest, manilles, manliest, mannites, mantlets, melanins, melanist, metalist, smaltine, smaltite, stannite, stillman, stillmen. | |
-4 letters: ailment, ainsell, aliment, elastin, entails, etamins, etatism, inanest, inmates, install, instant, instate, intents, laments, latents, lattens, lattins, lensman, lentils, lineman, linnets, lintels, littles, malines, mallets, manille, mannite, mantels, mantles, mantlet, mattins, melanin, menials. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: installments. | |
+2 letters: sentimentally. | |
+3 letters: instrumentally, noninstallment. | |
+4 letters: transilluminate. | |
+5 letters: transilluminated, transilluminates. | |
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