down payment

1. 1.

   a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later

   Synonymsdeposit

   Broaderpayment

   Narrowermargin

Questions about down payment

What does down payment mean?

down payment means "a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later".

What is another word for down payment?

Close synonyms include deposit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is down payment a common word?

down payment 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.