See Also: instalment(1)(dictionary)
instalment(2)(dictionary)
instalment(dictionary)
INSTALLATION or INSTALMENT(law)
INSTALMENT, contracts(law)

instalment(2) (iou)



instalment noun2. Also *installment. M18.
[Alt. (prob. by assoc. with INSTALMENT noun1) of ESTALMENT.]
The arrangement of the payment of a sum of money in fixed portions at fixed times. M-L18.
Each of the several parts, successively falling due, of a sum payable. L18.
R. Dahl What about the monthly installments on the television set? E. Fromm Buying all that he can afford to buy either for cash or on instalments.
Any of several parts (esp. of a serial story etc.) supplied, published, etc., at different times. E19.
C. Rycroft Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life first appeared in two instalments..as articles. B. Webb Five instalments of news at 10, 1, 4, 7 and 9.30 break up the day.
Comb.: instalment plan N. Amer. hire purchase.