Crossword clues for instalment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
installment \in*stall"ment\, instalment \in*stal"ment\, n.
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The act of installing; installation.
Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law.
--Milton. -
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.
--Shak. 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.-
a part of a broadcast serial. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: episode.
a part of a published serial. [WordNet sense 2]
Wiktionary
n. (context British Canadian English) (alternative spelling of installment English)
WordNet
n. a part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment]
a part of a published serial [syn: installment]
the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment]
Wikipedia
An instalment (or installment in American English) usually refers to either:
- A sum of money paid in small parts in a fixed period of time.
- a single payment within a staged payment plan of a loan or a hire purchase ( installment plan).
- an episode in a television or radio series
- an entry in a film series
- serial (literature), a publishing format under which a single large work is presented in contiguous successive publications
Usage examples of "instalment".
She was a chatty soul and at each session related an instalment of her home life while Claribel massaged her and egged her on to do the exercises she was so loath to do.
She now perceived that he regarded this 3,000 pounds only as the first instalment of what he might get, and that his joy was due simply to this temporary success.
Derues was to give 130,000 livres (about L20,000) for the estate, the payments to be made by instalments, the first of 12,000 livres to be paid on the actual signing of the contract of sale, which, it was agreed, was to be concluded not later than the first of June, 1776.
From its first published instalment it attracted attention far and wide.
It may be, for instance, in such annual instalments as the law of Congress has left at their disposal, or in stock of any of their late loans, or of any loan they may institute at this session, so as to spare the present calls of our country, and await its days of peace and prosperity.
That night the women got about thirty-five pounds of boiled pig meat, conveyed to them surreptitiously in several instalments.
Marcia received three hundred dollars an instalment for the serial publication, which came at an opportune time, for though Horace's monthly salary at the Hippodrome was now more than Marcia's had ever been, young Marcia was emitting shrill cries which they interpreted as a demand for country air.
Marcia received three hundred dollars an instalment for the serial publication, which came at an opportune time, for though Horace's monthly salary at the Hippodrome was now more than Marcia's had ever been, young Marcia was emitting shrill cries which they integrated as a demand for country air.
Jones endeavored to dissuade the old man from advancing the money, but without effect, and Rice sent a letter to Houston agreeing to supply one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and more in instalments of twenty-five thousand dollars each.