instalment

  • 121hire-purchase — a form of purchase under which the purchase price can be paid over an agreed period of time by instalments. During the period the goods purchased remain the property of the seller (or the hire purchase company to whom the seller has assigned his… …

    Law dictionary

  • 122payment — The amount required to repay a loan, including interest and fees. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * payment pay‧ment [ˈpeɪmənt] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] FINANCE an amount of money that must be or has been paid, or the act of paying it …

    Financial and business terms

  • 123final — fi‧nal [ˈfaɪnl] adjective 1. [only before a noun] the last in a series of things, actions, or events: • An official announcement was expected following a final meeting at the tyre manufacturer s Milan headquarters. • The US based company is… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 124system — sys‧tem [ˈsɪstm] noun [countable] an arrangement or organization of ideas, methods, or ways of working: • Deregulation has created worries about the stability of the country s financial system. • All staff will benefit from a well run… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 125installment — UK US /ɪnˈstɔːlmənt/ noun [C or U] US ► COMMERCE INSTALMENT(Cf. ↑instalment) …

    Financial and business terms

  • 126instal — [16] To instal someone was originally literally to put them ‘into a stall’. The word comes from medieval Latin installāre, a compound verb based on the noun stallum ‘stall’, and referred originally to the formal induction of someone into an… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 127amount paid up — /əˌmaυnt peɪd ʌp/ noun an amount paid for a new issue of shares, either the total payment or the first instalment, if the shares are offered with instalment payments …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 128instal — [16] To instal someone was originally literally to put them ‘into a stall’. The word comes from medieval Latin installāre, a compound verb based on the noun stallum ‘stall’, and referred originally to the formal induction of someone into an… …

    Word origins