<noun.act> the telephone installation took only a few minutes
installment \in*stall"ment\, instalment \in*stal"ment\, n. 1. The act of installing; installation.
Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. --Milton.
2. The seat in which one is placed. [Obs.]
The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. --Shak.
3. 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 +PJC]
4. a part of a broadcast serial. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: episode. [WordNet 1.5]
5. a part of a published serial. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5]
The shares, trading at CDollars 27 3/4 before the deal, are being sold on an instalment basis, with full payment due only in March 1993.
The second instalment, payable in March 1994, will be 140p.
Over to the next instalment of the 'Ken and Eddie' show next week.
If the second instalment were not paid they would, effectively, have received an unacceptably high 6 per cent commission.
However, he warned that the September savings figure might be down again because of payments for the final instalment of regional electricity company share issues. The mortgage side of the building society industry continued to languish in August.
There is likely to be little else to grab the nation's attention in next week's instalment of Britain's soap-opera politics.
The next instalment is due to be paid next month. The group says that Mr Hurd overstepped his powers under the 1980 Overseas Development and Co-operation Act by allocating aid money for the improper purpose of promoting trade with Malaysia.
Last week came the latest instalment.
The 50p paid shares have tumbled to an effective 36.2p and investors will soon have to dig into their pockets for the other 50p instalment due in August.
This year, only 1 per cent of the membership met the January 31 deadline. To make it easier for poorer nations, a quarterly instalment system should replace the current lump sum arrangement, the report suggests.
Those units not taken up were sold at a premium of 79.3p over the first instalment of 260p.
The underwriting group plans to offer the shares bought from GW Utilities to the public on an instalment basis.
The first instalment on Saturday mostly covered Matthew Bramble's journey from Brambleton to Bristol, Bramble being the splendid Timothy West.
The third instalment is due in April 1993. Non-customers will have to apply for a package of shares in the two companies and make a Pounds 750 minimum investment with a first instalment of Pounds 300.
The third instalment is due in April 1993. Non-customers will have to apply for a package of shares in the two companies and make a Pounds 750 minimum investment with a first instalment of Pounds 300.
It is sad to think that the Chains are broken off now: they amounted to a public exhibition of a first-class composer's developing thoughts, and one awaited each new instalment with excited anticipation.
The second instalment, also of HKDollars 2bn, was paid earlier this week. Hopewell's mooted bond was also shelved because of the poor market conditions, which would have exacerbated the difficulty of distributing a big issue.