INSTALLMENTS Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

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 Before his 2001-10 stay on 24, Charters shot 57 episodes of the NBC drama The Pretender during its 1997-2000 run and 19 installments of the second season of the WB-UPN sci-fi series Roswell in 2000-01. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 Consumers are paying for daily necessities in four installments. — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 Over the weekend, there were two barely believable instalments for the archives — one from Luis Vazquez and another from Calvin Stengs. — Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 On April 4, 2025, Camden County prosecutors said, Diiorio met with the informant in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, handed over $500, and promised to pay nearly $12,000 in installments to him to complete the job. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Mandia was awarded 4,086 shares of common stock as part of his appointment, which will vest in three equal annual installments beginning November 15, 2027, the filing states. — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026 Hishow is also stepping into genre films by releasing all four installments in the Spanish zombie horror franchise Rec, co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026 What was sworn to be the final chapter in a revolutionary trilogy, the shift in tone from the first two installments can be attributed to a change in writers. — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026 Shifting Gears’ previous two installments aired nearly back-to-back. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026

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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

Virginia Sin’s ceramic Olo hooks look much more like miniature art installations, but don’t be afraid to put them to work.

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
Krohn had come to New York in the 1970s from Portland, Oregon, and got work building installations for Soho galleries including Sperone and Marian Goodman.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of installations

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Todd said clients that had planned capital investments nixed projects because of the escalating tariff threats and the prospect that the value of those investments would be hollowed out by new tariff burdens.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
In regulatory filings, DTE officials said the company needed to increase natural gas rates to recover costs related to infrastructure investments and maintain current service reliability.

— Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 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

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