installment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=stall=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

installment, n. 

•  The act of installing; installation.  [1913 Webster]

  "Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law."  [1913 Webster]
•  The seat in which one is placed.  [1913 Webster]

  "The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . .
  Each fair installment, coat, and several crest
  With loyal blazon, evermore be blest."  [1913 Webster]
•  A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times; that portion of a debt payed back in any one payment; as, the next installment is due January first. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]
•  a part of a broadcast serial.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a part of a published serial.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

installment

accedence, accession, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adjunct, amortization, amortizement, anchorage, article, binder, book, cash, cash payment, chapter, clause, clearance, colonization, column, coming out, component, contingent, coronation, cross section, curtain raiser, debt service, debut, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, detachment, detail, disbursal, discharge, division, dole, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, embarkation, embarkment, enthronement, establishment, fascicle, first appearance, fixation, floating, flotation, foundation, fraction, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment plan, instatement, interest payment, introduction, investiture, item, launching, liquidation, livraison, lodgment, maiden speech, monthly payments, mooring, never-never, opener, paragraph, parcel, part, particular, passage, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, peopling, percentage, phrase, placement, plantation, population, portion, preliminary, prepayment, quadrant, quarter, quarterly payments, quittance, quota, random sample, regular payments, remainder, remittance, retirement, sample, sampling, satisfaction, section, sector, segment, serial, settlement, settling, share, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, taking office, unveiling, verse, volume, weekly payments

ROGET THESAURUS

installment

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Payment

N payment, defrayment, discharge, acquittance, quittance, settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement, acknowledgment, release, receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands, voucher, salary, compensation, remuneration (reward), repayment, reimbursement, retribution, pay, money paid, ready money, stake, remittance, installment, payer, liquidator, pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead, paying, paid, owing nothing, out of debt, all straight, unowed, never indebted, to the tune of, on the nail, money down.

Expenditure

N expenditure, money going out, out goings, out lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase, expending, expended, sumptuary, vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae.