installments

noun

variants also instalments
plural of installment
as in inaugurations
the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization attended the installment of the new university president

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Recent Examples of installments Meta said payments will be distributed in annual installments over a 10-year period. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 The social media giant said the payment will be distributed in annual installments over a 10-year period. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 The nearly 60-year-old film and TV production company is behind films like the Lord of the Rings and Final Destination franchises and more recently the Mortal Kombat installments. — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 The latest batch of episodes premieres this month, with a six-episode season dropping new installments every two weeks. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 The benefactor agreed to pay the premiums and loan the couple money in installments of $10,000. — Vito Emanuel, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026 There's no standard window in which settlement payments must be made, so your agreement could call for a quick lump-sum payment or installments over a longer period. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 The Council unanimously passed $10,000 bonuses in four installments, meaning the legislative body had enough votes to override a potential mayoral veto. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 In fact, serial literature – where a more extensive work was published in a series of smaller, sequential installments --- had been a popular publishing technique from the Victorian Era in England to the 20th century. — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
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  1. inaugurations
  2. inaugurals
  3. installations
  4. investments
  5. initiations
Noun
  • Roosevelt took his first oath of office on March 4, 1933, but his subsequent inaugurations took place on January 20.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Fireworks herald the World Cup, the Olympics, inaugurations, weddings, railroad openings, royal matrimony, saints, the Saints, the spring equinox, eclipses, the New Year, the Day of the Dead, the beginning of summer, the end of it.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of inaugurations
Noun
  • Van Dijk and her fellow travelers even brought their own swag to give out and said inaugurals feel like a bonding experience for everyone on the flight.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 May 2026
Definition of inaugurals
Noun
  • To keep the arrays from catching the wind like sails, engineers mount the solar panels at much flatter tilt angles than those used in typical ground installations.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • American Home Shield covers unknown preexisting conditions and improper installations.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of installations
Noun
  • Rates are also moving higher as companies issue more debt to fund their outsized artificial intelligence investments, creating more competition for capital.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The firm specializes in technology investments, with notable ventures into OpenAI, Anthropic, DoorDash, Spotify and Airbnb, among many others.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of investments
Noun
  • Plus, quiet periods are ending for banks that worked on last month’s blockbuster IPO, so we’re met with a flood of analyst initiations.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But some like the Kimbell’s have eyes and other piercings cut into them and used likely as part of initiations or the end of a ritual.
    — James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Nov. 2025
Definition of initiations

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“Installments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/installments. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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