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   instalment

   /ɪnˈstɔːlm(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. a sum of money due as one of several equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time: "the first instalment of a grant for housing" Similar part paymentpartial paymentinstalment planinstalment-payment plandeferred paymenthire purchaseHPinstallment buyinginformal:the never-never
   • 2. any of several parts of something which are published, broadcast, or made public in sequence at intervals: "filming the final instalment in his Vietnam trilogy" Similar partportionsectionsegmentdivisionbitchapterepisodevolumeissue
   • 3. the process of installing something; installation: "instalment will begin early next year"

   Word Origin mid 18th century (denoting the arrangement of payment by instalments): alteration of obsolete estalment (probably by association with installation), from Anglo-Norman French estalement, from Old French estaler ‘to fix’.

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