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/ɪnstˈɔlmənt/ Listen

noun

instalment, installment n.

The act of installing; installation. "Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law."

The seat in which one is placed. (Obs.) "The several chairs of order, look, you scour;... Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest."

A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times; that portion of a debt payed back in any one payment; as, the next installment is due January first. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.

A part of a broadcast serial.

Synonyms: episode.

A part of a published serial.

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"Installment" Quotes from Famous Books

... Perez Ryder, Master, were shrouded in a very realistic fog of the same dust. Even the imposing gilt-lettered set of "Lives of Great Naval Commanders," purchased by Captain Perez some months before, and being slowly paid for on an apparently never-ending installment plan, was cloaked with it. The heap of newspapers, shoved under the couch to get them out of the way, peeped forth in a tell-tale manner. The windows were not too clean and the floor needed sweeping. Incidentally the supper table had not been cleared. Each one of the three noted these things ...

— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... passing of the bill the previous September.[25] Bibb mentions two runaways from North Carolina who were 101 days reaching Canada.[26] The Detroit Free Press reported that 29 runaways crossed to Canada about the end of March, 1859, "the first installment of northern emigration from North Carolina."[27] About the same time The Detroit Advertiser announced that "seventy fugitive slaves arrived in Canada by one train from the interior of Tennessee. A week before a company of 12 arrived. At nearly the same time a party of ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... That's a good idea of yours, to build our fire on the rock, with water all around. The fire couldn't possibly spread." Paul looked proudly at the rain-soaked trees and wet soggy leaves which his forethought had saved from destruction and strode across the brook in his rubber boots, with the first installment ...

— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... too poor to be able to think of five hundred dollars all at once. I will have to try it on the installment plan. But wouldn't it be jolly if I did get a good sum," and Tavia's eyes took on a far-away look— perhaps all the way to Dalton ...

— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose

... would think of little things like that, but I begin to see already that it isn't easy to guess what he is like really, unless he chooses to let one do so. As we were on the way to the house, he said to me in a low tone, "Here's an installment of what I owe you for your brooch," and quickly he slipped a lot of gold and silver into my hand, making my fingers shut round ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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