Installment



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 分期付款; 安装
• ［英］ n. 分期付款; 安装 ( installation)
• ［记］ in ( 不) +stall ( 停止) +ment -> 不停地 ( 给钱) -> 分期付款_

Webster Collegiate

I. noun also instalment

• Date: 1589
• installation 1

II. noun also instalment

• Etymology: alteration of earlier estallment payment by installment, from estall to arrange payments by installment, from Anglo-French estaler, from estal station, stall, division of a stage, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German stal place, stall
• Date: 1776
• 1. one of the parts into which a debt is divided when payment is made at intervals
• 2.
  • a. one of several parts (as of a publication) presented at intervals
  • b. one part of a serial story
• ? installment adjective

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