installment plan

as in trust
US a way of paying for something by making a series of small payments over a long time We used an installment plan to buy the furniture.

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Recent Examples of installment plan Limit Use Of Buy-Now-Pay-Later Services BNPL services offer installment plans for online purchases, often with no interest if paid on time. True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 Taxpayers often have opportunities to negotiate repayment arrangements or installment plans to avoid immediate refund loss. Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025 The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish, but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Consumers can access Affirm’s biweekly and monthly installment plans and have the money automatically deducted from their checking account. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for installment plan
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Noun
  • Duran gained the family’s trust and was percieved by the girls’ mother to be a good influence.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
  • Watts claims a lack of trust and support from the board led to his departure, three years before his contract's end.
    Annie Goldman, The Enquirer, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Export/import and credit data release was stronger than expected.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Fans without pre-paid parking should arrive at any State Farm Stadium car park and have a credit or debit card ready.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025

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“Installment plan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/installment%20plan. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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