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# instalment

«instalment» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of several parts of a payment, paid at different times** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an instalment, instalments; US installment)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An instalment is one of several parts of a payment, paid at different times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#m1)

2) An instalment is one part of a story or series that comes out bit by bit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Money and adult life (pay for a car in instalments), maths problems (equal instalments), books, TV and comics (the next instalment).

### examples

- They paid for the sofa in ten instalments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x1)
- The next instalment of the comic comes out on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x2)
- Each instalment is fifty dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x3)
- The book was first printed in weekly instalments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x4)
- We are watching the final instalment tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x5)
- Grandad paid off the loan in monthly instalments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x6)
- With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/#x7)

### note

UK: instalment; US: installment (double l). In maths: total cost = number of instalments × amount of each instalment.

### In the corpora

- [Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «instalment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/instalment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.