as in deposit
a first payment that you make when you buy something with an agreement to pay the rest later
She made a 10 percent down payment on the car. We put a down payment on the house.
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Recent Examples of down payment
Amazon has plenty of tiny homes available that are all for the taking—no down payment, mortgage, or real estate agent required.
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Camryn Dilger, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Other champions, like season 10’s Dan Gheesling, took a different approach, investing most of the prize and limiting splurges to practical purchases, like a condo down payment.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The renter, who hypothetically invested the $90,000 down payment in the stock market, would accumulate $929,000.
—Jeff Goertzen, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
From around 2018 through 2023, Rubin paid the rent on Powers’ Manhattan apartment, her children’s private school tuition, her credit card bills and the down payment on her Texas home.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
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Camryn Dilger, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Other champions, like season 10’s Dan Gheesling, took a different approach, investing most of the prize and limiting splurges to practical purchases, like a condo down payment.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The renter, who hypothetically invested the $90,000 down payment in the stock market, would accumulate $929,000.
—Jeff Goertzen, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
From around 2018 through 2023, Rubin paid the rent on Powers’ Manhattan apartment, her children’s private school tuition, her credit card bills and the down payment on her Texas home.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for down payment
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Boissevain’s nature photography captures these in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-like crystal deposits to aerial shots of what scans like the surface of Mars.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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The temple’s foundation deposits also contained a glass plaque confirming it was dedicated to the goddess Isis, the deity Cleopatra identified with during her reign from 51 BCE to 30 BCE.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The blazing cornerback provides no guarantees, having not played an NFL down even in the preseason.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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But, as the Arab Spring taught us, there is no guarantee that what comes after will, in fact, be better.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Twin Cities,
16 Oct. 2025
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