Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
installment plan
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But modern publishers knew they needed a very formidable, sure-selling author to make the installment plan succeed.
▪ But nobody was thinking about the installment plan Friday when they lowered the tiny casket into the ground.
▪ The Warriors bought it on the installment plan.
WordNet
installment plan
n. a system for paying for goods by installments [syn: installment buying, time plan]
Usage examples of "installment plan".
It looked to be starvation on the installment plan, which was a lot better than a continuous forty days of it.
For Brax did not tell me that when I won the club, I won it on the installment plan!
But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the installment plan—.