as in deposits
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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During future fly-bys of Io, Juno will survey the moon’s surface looking for new lava flows and ash deposits resulting from this spectacular volcanic eruption.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
29 Jan. 2026 -
Every sector in the construction industry has different standards for deposits and invoicing.—
Danielle Higley,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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After stints with the Las Vegas Raiders and the New York Jets, Adams signed a two-year contract with the Rams that included about $25 million in guarantees.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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The meeting, which officials said would be the first trilateral talks since Moscow’s 2022 invasion, comes after a US envoy met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and Washington and Kyiv agreed to postwar security guarantees.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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