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hire purchase

hire purchase noun: a method of purchasing an item, where the buyer hires it and takes possession of it and pays regular instalments. Ownership is only transferred on payment of the final amount. Abbreviated as HP.

Noun

hire purchase (countable and uncountable, plural hire purchases)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A method of purchasing an item, where the buyer hires it and takes possession of it and pays regular instalments. Ownership is only transferred on payment of the final amount. Abbreviated as HP.
    • Hector Puncheon was a young man with a hearty and healthy digestion. He had heard, of course, of sodium bicarb, and its virtues, but only as a wealthy man hears of hire-purchase.1933, Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
    • Maggie Thatcher, you can't match her, she's the darling of us all. She's the curse of the Irish nation, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. She's destroyed me hire purchase and she's put me on the dole. If I could only get my hands on her, I'd kick her up the hole!1983, “The Thatcher Song”performed by Seán Brady

hire purchase meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian

hire purchase in Tamil

தவணைமுறையில் விலைக்கு வாங்குதல்

hire purchase in Malayalam

instalment plan, deferred payment, HP
തവണവ്യവസ്ഥ, തുല്യതവണ, തവണവ്യവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള കച്ചവടം, തവണകളായി പണമടയ്ക്കുന്ന പദ്ധതി, ഗഡുക്കളായി പണമടയ്ക്കൽ, തവണയായി അടയ്ക്കൽ

hire purchase in Kannada

ಕಂತು ಮಾರಾಟ

hire purchase in Indonesian

method of purchasing an item
beli sewa
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hire purchase in Thai
เช่าซื้อ châo-sʉ́ʉ

Synonyms of hire purchase

Forms of hire purchase

pluralhire purchases

Questions about hire purchase

What does hire purchase mean?
Hire purchase means a method of purchasing an item, where the buyer hires it and takes possession of it and pays regular instalments. Ownership is only transferred on payment of the final amount. Abbreviated as HP.
What is hire purchase in Tamil?
Hire purchase in Tamil is தவணைமுறையில் விலைக்கு வாங்குதல். See Hire purchase meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hire purchase?
Hire purchase is a noun.
What is the plural of hire purchase?
The plural of hire purchase is hire purchases.

Words near hire purchase in the dictionary

  1. hirdy-girdy
  2. hire
  3. hire car
  4. hire cars
  5. hire out
  6. hire purchase
  7. hire purchases
  8. hire system
  9. hireable
  10. hireage
  11. hired

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hire purchase (page history and authors); hire purchase (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hire purchase (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hire purchase (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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