instalment
- n a part of a broadcast serial
- n a part of a published serial
- n the act of installing something (as equipment)
- At the public hall, Cardinal Mercier received the first instalment (1,200,000 francs) of a huge purse which is being collected for him.
- A large school of economic thought scoffed instalment buying in 1928, blamed it for the catastrophe of 1929, foretold its speedy annihilation.
- Year ago, the highly reputable National Bureau of Economic Research got a fund from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Association of Reserve City Bankers to study instalment .