Installment

Noun

 * 1) The act of installing; installation.
 * Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
 * 1)  The seat in which one is placed.
 * The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.

Synonyms

 * investiture, investment
 * installation

Noun

 * 1) A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
 * 2) a part of a broadcast or published serial.
 * 3) anything that is performed in parts, spread in time

Synonyms

 * episode, part
 * episode, part

Verbs for Installment
administer—; commend—; consent to—; direct—; glorify—; herald—; honor by—; influence—; inspire—; invite to—; observe—; occasion—; perform—; plan—; preside at —; seek—; view—; —climaxes; witness—.

Thesaurus
accedence, accession, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adjunct, amortization, amortizement, anchorage, article, binder, book, cash, cash payment, chapter, clause, clearance, colonization, column, coming out, component, contingent, coronation, cross section, curtain raiser, debt service, debut, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, detachment, detail, disbursal, discharge, division, dole, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, embarkation, embarkment, enthronement, establishment, fascicle, first appearance, fixation, floating, flotation, foundation, fraction, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment plan, instatement, interest payment, introduction, investiture, item, launching, liquidation, livraison, lodgment, maiden speech, monthly payments, mooring, never-never, opener, paragraph, parcel, part, particular, passage, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, peopling, percentage, phrase, placement, plantation, population, portion, preliminary, prepayment, quadrant, quarter, quarterly payments, quittance, quota, random sample, regular payments, remainder, remittance, retirement, sample, sampling, satisfaction, section, sector, segment, serial, settlement, settling, share, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, taking office, unveiling, verse, volume, weekly payments

Alternative forms

 * instalment ''( - In the UK, instalment is the standard spelling.)

Etymology 1
From install, itself from medieval French installer, from medieval Latin installare, from Latin in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)

Etymology 2
A 1732 alteration of estallment:, from estaler:, from  estal:, from  stal:
 * The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

Noun

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Noun

 * Czech: splátka
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: osamaksuerä, lyhennyserä
 * French: au fur et à mesure (in installments)
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 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, cuibhreann
 * Swedish: avbetalning, amortering
 * Telugu: వాయిదా (vaayidaa), విడత (viData)


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