Thesaurus results for DOWN PAYMENT

down payment

noun

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 Buying comes with costs to get in—down payment, closing costs, moving—and costs to get out (real estate commissions, moving). —

Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Apr. 2026 For example, San Diego, which ranked eighth on the list, boasts a robust job market and high quality of living, but saving for a down payment on a home can take upward of a decade. —

Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026 That down payment on the house kind of emptied us out. —

Jo Ling Kent, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 That means that a home listed at $1.5 million sold for $150,000 more on average — more than a down payment in most of the country. —

Christian Leonard, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for down payment

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The study got its start when co-author Brian Gootee, a geologist with the Arizona Geological Survey, noticed a resemblance between sand deposits downstream of the Grand Canyon and in the Bidahochi—both contained pink, rounded grains that seemed to have been transported by the same river.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
The highest crests of Shackleton’s rim offer the advantage of near-continuous sunlight, providing a lander or future Moon base a stable source of solar power right next to a crater floor in eternal shadow, where temperatures are cold enough to preserve ancient ice deposits.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026