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down payment

down payment noun: a payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.

Noun

down payment (plural down payments)

  1. A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.
    Synonyms:
    deposit
  2. (broadly) Any initial commitment signifying an intention to carry out a larger future commitment, even though no legal rights or obligations are secured.
    • Her parents considered her school tuition a down payment on her future.
    • After decades of empty rhetoric, that's the down payment that we need on energy independence.2009 February 5, Barack Obama, My Door is Always Open

down payment meaning in Tamil, Punjabi, Tagalog and Indonesian

down payment in Tamil

உடனடி வழங்கு தொகை, முன்பணம், பணமாகக் கொடுத்தல்

down payment in Punjabi

down payment
ਨਕਦ nakad

down payment in Tagalog

payment representing a fraction of the price
pauna, paunang bayad

down payment in Indonesian

payment representing a fraction of the price
uang muka, panjar, persekot
More languagesFewer languages
down payment in Vietnamese
tiền cọc

Synonyms of down payment

Forms of down payment

pluraldown payments

Words formed from down payment

Questions about down payment

What does down payment mean?
Down payment means a payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.
What is down payment in Tamil?
Down payment in Tamil is உடனடி வழங்கு தொகை, முன்பணம், பணமாகக் கொடுத்தல். See Down payment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is down payment?
Down payment is a noun.
What is the plural of down payment?
The plural of down payment is down payments.

Words near down payment in the dictionary

  1. down mattress
  2. down on one's knees
  3. down on one's luck
  4. down on one's uppers
  5. down pat
  6. down payment
  7. down payments
  8. down perm
  9. down perms
  10. down quark
  11. down quarks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down payment (page history and authors); down payment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਕਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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