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Down Payment

Definition: Down Payment

Down Payment

Noun

1. A partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Down Payment

DomainDefinition

Business

An amount of money paid by a buyer to a seller at the time of purchase, as part of an agreement providing for the payment of the balance. . . in one or more later installments. Source: European Union. (references)
 In connection with hire purchase:the buyer usually pays an agreed cash sum on entering into a contract for such a transaction ; a partial and first payment on account of the purchase price of property ; an amount of money paid by a buyer to a seller at the time of purchase, as part of an agreement providing for the payment of the balance of the total price on one or more later instalments. Source: European Union. (references)
 The money paid to make up the difference between the purchase price and the mortgage amount. Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

(1) an initial, partial payment made at the time of purchase to permit the buyer to take delivery of the purchase. (2) a partial payment made to evidence good faith that the buyer will complete the purchase transaction at the time the contract is signed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Down Payment

Synonym: deposit (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Down Payment

Specialty definitions using "down payment": Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961Veterans Administration. (references)

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Modern Usage: Down Payment

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

No Down Payment (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Down Payment

DomainTitle

Books

  • Down payment on death (reference)

  • Equity Sharing Book: How to Buy a Home Even If You Can't Afford the Down Payment (reference)

  • How to Write Off Your Down Payment (reference)

  • No Down Payment Formulas (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Down Payment

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

This is a common practice and the down payment ranges between 10% to 30% of the contract value. (references)

It must be taken into account that while local manufacturers are not highly competitive, third country suppliers are. Sales terms generally require a 10 percent down payment and a five-year financing. (references)

Foreign companies must take into account that while local manufacturers are not terribly competitive, third country suppliers are. Sales terms are generally a 10 percent down payment and a five-year financing. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

All foreign exchange to be used for import payment must be purchased either on the date of settlement specified in the commercial contract, or at the time when the required down payment is made. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Down Payment

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001My balanced budget makes a down payment toward that goal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Down Payment

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.
 
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per Day
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per Day

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6

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3

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carleton sheet no down payment

8

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3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Down Payment

Language Translations for "down payment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

paradhënie (advance, earnest), kapar (deposit, earnest). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

плащане в брой (cash down). (various references)

   

Danish

  

depositum (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, deposit, earnest money, guarantee deposit, initial margin, margin requirement, payment on account, pledge deposit, provision, security, tender guarantee), udbetaling (deposit, payment, payment on account). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aanbetaling (first instalment, initial deposit, instalment). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

unua partpago, ekpago (first instalment, initial deposit, instalment). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

erotusmaksu. (various references)

   

French

  

versement initial, acompte. (various references)

   

German

  

anzahlung (commission, deposit, first installment, first instalment, initial deposit, instalment, prepayment). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καπάρο (deposit, earnest), κατάθεση (attestation, deposit, deposition, sworn statement, testimony), προκαταβολή (advance, deposit, payment in advance). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elsõ fizetés. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

panjaran. (various references)

   

Italian

  

deposito (account, attic, bestowal, check in, deposit, depository, depot, leaving, loft, memory, pawn, pledge, repository, storage, store, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse), caparra (deposit, earnest, earnest money), anticipo in contanti, acconto (account, advance, deposit, installment, instalment, part payment, prepaywnent). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(deposit), 即金 , 契約金 (contract money). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そっき" (braintruster, close associate), あたまき" (deposit), けいやくき" (contract money). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ownday aymentpay

   

Portuguese

  

depósito (bailment, deposit, deposition, depository, dreg, font, garner, lodging, magazine, outhouse, reservoir, sediment, storehouse, tank), sinalização (wigwag), pré-pagamento (deposit, payment on account), pagamento inicial, entrada (adit, admittance, approach, door, door-money, doorway, entrée, entrance, entry, gatemoney, gateway, hallway, hors d'oeuvre, incoming, ingress, inlet, input, intake, jaw, lobby, mouth, portal, threshold). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

acont (advance, earnest). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

первый взнос. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kaucija (bail, caution money, deposit, security), kapara (earnest). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entrada (access, accession, admission, admittance, audience, beginning, crowd, deposit, door, doorway, entrée, entrance, entrance hall, entry, gate, gate money, gateway, house, income, influx, injection, inlet, innings, input, intake, lead, lead in, mouth, opening, porch, portal, receipts, right of entry, tackle, takings, ticket, way in). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kontant betalning, handpenning (deposit, earnest, key money). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

depozito (caution money, deposit, security), teminât (assurance, bail, caution, caution money, deposit, earnest, Gage, guarantee, hostage, indemnification, indemnity, pledge, recognizance, security, surety, warrant), peşinat (advance payment), peşin ödeme (cash, cash in advance, cash payment, payment by anticipation, prepayment). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự trả tiền mặt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Down Payment

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-n-o-p-t-w-y"

-3 letters: nonempty, tamponed, twopenny, wantoned.

-4 letters: annoyed, anodyne, antonym, meadowy, montane, nonmeat, notepad, payment, pendant, tympano, womaned.

-5 letters: anonym, anyone, atoned, daemon, dampen, donate, dopant, dynamo, eponym, etymon, manned, meadow, moaned, moated, newton, noyade, omenta, panned, panted, pawned, pedant, penman, pentad, pomade, ponent, potman, potmen, tamped, tampon, tandem, tanned, tawney, teapoy, tendon, teopan, tympan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Down Payment


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 77 6E      50 61 79 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 00100000 01010000 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#119 &#110 &#32 &#80 &#97 &#121 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0077 006E      0050 0061 0079 006D 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38818980250679179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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