installment buying

1. 1.

   a system for paying for goods by installments

   Synonymsinstallment plantime plan

   Broaderregular payment

   Narrowerhire-purchase

Questions about installment buying

What does installment buying mean?

installment buying means "a system for paying for goods by installments".

What is another word for installment buying?

Close synonyms include installment plan, time plan. 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 installment buying a common word?

installment buying 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.