installment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of several successive payments or parts of a whole

   She paid for the sofa in monthly installments.

Alteration of earlier 'estallment' (an arrangement for payment by fixed dates), from Anglo-French estaler ('to fix, place at intervals'), from estal ('position, stall'), of Germanic origin; later reshaped by influence of 'install'.

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