'installment' definitions:
Definition of 'installment'
From: WordNet
noun
A payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals
noun
A part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment, instalment]
noun
A part of a published serial [syn: installment, instalment]
noun
The act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment]
Definition of 'installment'
From: GCIDE
- installment \in*stall"ment\, instalment \in*stal"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of installing; installation. [1913 Webster]
- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The seat in which one is placed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 4. a part of a broadcast serial. [WordNet sense 1]
- Syn: episode. [WordNet 1.5]
- 5. a part of a published serial. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'installment'
From: Moby 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