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down payment

down payment

noun
1.
an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
2.
any initial or partial payment, gift, favor, or recompense, as to reduce one's indebtedness or express one's obligation or gratitude: This gift is just a down payment for all the favors I owe you.
Also, down-pay·ment.


Origin:
1925–30
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Down payment is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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down payment
 
n
the deposit paid on an item purchased on hire-purchase, mortgage, etc

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down payment definition


A payment in part made at the time of purchase of a good, with the promise to make full payment later.

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