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 There are certain penalty exceptions, including for the down payment on a home or education expenses. —

Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 June 2026 For the most tragic car dorks, stop worrying about saving up for a down payment on something new and start learning how to fix the cars that came out before smartphones. —

Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 3 June 2026 The current down payment assistance program offers to pay up to $150,000 to first-generation home buyers in California and only needs to be paid back after homebuyers sell their home. —

Philip Wang, Time, 2 June 2026 Liu used the funds as a down payment on a home for his daughter, per sources speaking with Caixin. —

Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for down payment

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Noun

Most contracts allow the buyer to cancel and recover the deposit.

— Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
The original Brazilian deposits were largely depleted by the mid-1990s, though copper-bearing tourmalines with similar color and mineral composition were later discovered in Nigeria, Mozambique and Ethiopia.

— Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026