| 单词 | hire-purchase |
| 释义 | > as lemmashire-purchase hire-purchase n. a system by which a hired article becomes, by virtue of a stipulated number of payments, the property of the hirer; used esp. attributively; also as v. Cf. H.P. n. at H n. Initialisms. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > hire purchase time payment1852 consumers' credit1886 hire-purchase1895 never-never1926 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > incrementally or hire purchase hire-purchase1895 staircase1988 1895 Brit. Warehouseman Feb. 30/2 The plaintiff let a piano to one Sullivan under an ordinary hire-purchase agreement. 1896 Daily News 24 Jan. 7/2 Mr. Moore..was the inventor of the now widely adopted hire-purchase system. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/1 Could not the hire-purchase system be worked? 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. July 421/1 Not hire-purchased, you see; I'm not to be gulled by silly advertisements. No. I found my own shop and made my own choice. 1909 Installation News iii. 134/1 The hire and hire-purchase of cooking, heating, and other apparatus. 1923 ‘Bartimeus’ Seaways 36 If it wasn't for my daughter Annie bein' musical an' wantin' a pianner on the 'ire purchase, I wouldn't stop aboard 'er another night. 1930 Economist 25 Jan. 215/2 (advt.) Bank of England and Hire Purchase. 1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 38 All three hire-purchase agreements were illegal. < as lemmas |
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