conditional sale

1. 1.

   a security interest taken by the seller in return for credit

   Broadersecurity interest
2. 2.

   a sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price)

   Broadersale

Questions about conditional sale

What does conditional sale mean?

conditional sale means "a security interest taken by the seller in return for credit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is conditional sale a common word?

conditional sale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.