installment

Pronunciation
,

Etymology 1
A 1732 alteration of, from , from , from

The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

Noun

 * 1) One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
 * 2)  One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
 * 3)  A part of a published or broadcast serial.
 * 1)  One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
 * 2)  A part of a published or broadcast serial.
 * 1)  One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
 * 2)  A part of a published or broadcast serial.

Usage notes
For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment. Commonwealth usage varies.

Derived terms

 * installment loan
 * installment plan

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: вноска
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: afdrag,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: partopago
 * Faroese: avgjald
 * Finnish: osamaksuerä, lyhennyserä, ,
 * French: (in installments)
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: afborgun
 * Indonesian:
 * Latin: pensiō
 * Maori: utu harangotengote
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: avdrag
 * Nynorsk: avdrag
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, cuibhreann
 * Serbo-Croatian: рата
 * Slovak: splátka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: hulog
 * Telugu: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: розстро́чка
 * Urdu: قِسْط


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: наставак, епизода
 * Latin: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Urdu: قِسْط

Etymology 2
From, install from , from , from and , stall from a Germanic source (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) The act of installing; installation.
 * 2)  The seat in which one is placed.
 * 1)  The seat in which one is placed.
 * 1)  The seat in which one is placed.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: dosazení
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: whakanohoanga
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: