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hire-purchase system

[hahyuhr-pur-chuhs]
–noun British.
a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
Also called hire-purchase.


Origin:
1895–1900
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hire-purchase

noun
installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never" 
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