instalment

«instalment» in Mova's school dictionary: one of several parts of a payment, paid at different times — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an instalment, instalments; US installment)

meaning for a pupil

1) An instalment is one of several parts of a payment, paid at different times. tree →

2) An instalment is one part of a story or series that comes out bit by bit. tree →

sense in the lessons

Money and adult life (pay for a car in instalments), maths problems (equal instalments), books, TV and comics (the next instalment).

examples

• They paid for the sofa in ten instalments. tree →
• The next instalment of the comic comes out on Friday. tree →
• Each instalment is fifty dollars. tree →
• The book was first printed in weekly instalments. tree →
• We are watching the final instalment tonight. tree →
• Grandad paid off the loan in monthly instalments. tree →
• With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete. tree →

note

UK: instalment; US: installment (double l). In maths: total cost = number of instalments × amount of each instalment.

In the corpora

• Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «instalment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.