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hire purchases

hire purchases is the plural of hire purchase.

Meaning of hire purchase

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

Questions about hire purchases

What is hire purchases the plural of?
Hire purchases is the plural of hire purchase.

Words near hire purchases in the dictionary

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

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