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Definition of Installment buying
1. Noun. A system for paying for goods by installments.
Generic synonyms: Regular Payment
Specialized synonyms: Hire-purchase, Never-never
Lexicographical Neighbors of Installment Buying
Literary usage of Installment buying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Wage of Women Workers: A Study of Incomes and Expenditures of 450 by Louise Marion Bosworth, Foy Spencer Baldwin (1911)
"Concerning installment buying, opinions are many and various. The majority of
the women condemn it as a bad plan, but recognize it as a necessity for some ..."
2. American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown (1994)
"Even the salaried class spent more than their income in 1935, while in 1918 they
had a high savings rate (10%).m installment buying had grown dramatically ..."
3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"... insurance; reckoning of purchases from the company's store—savings by cash
purchasing— discounts, installment buying, cost of moving. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... 13 May 1957, in Faulkner in the University, 1959 The Encyclopaedia Britannica
lives off installment buying, this is our whole business —William Benton, ..."
5. Minutes by Michigan State Board of Education (1878)
"The course must be offered no later than the 10th grade and must include such
matters as budgeting, installment buying, loans, interest costs comparison, ..."