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Definition: Down Payment |
Down PaymentNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Synonym: Down PaymentSynonym: deposit (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Down Payment |
| Specialty definitions using "down payment": Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 ♦ Veterans Administration. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | No Down Payment (1957) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | My balanced budget makes a down payment toward that goal. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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 "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 | 金 (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 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) acont (advance, earnest). (various references) первый взнос. (various references) kaucija (bail, caution money, deposit, security), kapara (earnest). (various references) 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) kontant betalning, handpenning (deposit, earnest, key money). (various references) 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) sự trả tiền mặt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 6E      50 61 79 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 00100000 01010000 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w n   P a y m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 006E      0050 0061 0079 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818980250679179718086 |
| 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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