down paymentnoun [ C ]
also downpayment uk/ˌdaʊn ˈpeɪ.mənt/us/ˌdaʊn ˈpeɪ.mənt/an amount of money that you pay at the time that you buy something but is only a part of the total cost of that thing. You usually pay the rest of the cost over a period of time:
I made/put a down payment on a new smart TV.
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Amounts of money
- ante
- appropriation
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- spending money
- sub
- trough
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