hire-purchase

1. 1.

   installment plan

   “we bought a car on the never-never”

   Synonymsnever-never

   Broaderinstallment plan

   United Kingdom

Questions about hire-purchase

What does hire-purchase mean?

hire-purchase means "installment plan".

How many syllables are in hire-purchase?

hire-purchase has 4 syllables: hi-re--pur-chase. The stress falls on "re-".

What is another word for hire-purchase?

Close synonyms include never-never. 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 hire-purchase a common word?

hire-purchase 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.