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
Refreshed 2026 Tesla Model Y Long-Range All-Wheel Drive: Lease: $499/month, 36 Months, 10,000 miles/year, $2,999 down payment (before taxes and fees).
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
There’s near-universal agreement among housing observers that the primary barrier to ownership, for most people, is the down payment.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Along with saving for a down payment, expenses related to closing are among the top barriers to homeownership for Americans, according to data from the Urban Institute.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
Stone said the cost of purchasing both low- and moderately-priced homes would be capped at 30% of the buyers’ income, and Habitat for Humanity would require no down payment.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
There’s near-universal agreement among housing observers that the primary barrier to ownership, for most people, is the down payment.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Along with saving for a down payment, expenses related to closing are among the top barriers to homeownership for Americans, according to data from the Urban Institute.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
Stone said the cost of purchasing both low- and moderately-priced homes would be capped at 30% of the buyers’ income, and Habitat for Humanity would require no down payment.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for down payment
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That places the creatures as having lived during the early Carboniferous period, a time when Earth was covered in trees, and vast deposits of coal were beginning to form.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Make a cash deposit of $5 or more to qualify for this offer.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 May 2025
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Those restrictions upend the conventional understanding of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship guarantee for people born on U.S. soil, which the Supreme Court and most legal scholars have long interpreted to include only a few narrow exceptions, like the children of diplomats.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
15 May 2025
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But the presence of sporting director Giovanni Sartori — who has worked enough miracles at Chievo, Atalanta and Bologna to be a better candidate for Pope than Robert Prevost — was a guarantee.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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“Down payment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/down%20payment. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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