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never-never

never-never noun: the hire purchase system, or credit purchases.

Noun

the never-never

  1. (UK, colloquial) The hire purchase system, or credit purchases.
  2. (Australia, figuratively) The Australian outback.

never-never meaning in Malayalam

never-never in Malayalam

{hire}, purchase, buy
തവണവ്യവസ്ഥ, വാങ്ങൽ, വാങ്ങിക്കൽ, കൊള്ളം, കൊള്ളൽ, ഗ്രാഹം

Origin of never-never

Suggesting that the would-be purchaser may never manage to complete the payments and take ownership.

Words formed from never-never

Phrases with never-never

Questions about never-never

What does never-never mean?
Never-never means the hire purchase system, or credit purchases.
What is never-never in Malayalam?
Never-never in Malayalam is തവണവ്യവസ്ഥ, വാങ്ങൽ, വാങ്ങിക്കൽ. See Never-never meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is never-never?
Never-never is a noun.

Words near never-never in the dictionary

  1. never-ending
  2. Never-Ending September
  3. never-endingly
  4. never-married
  5. never-marrieds
  6. never-never
  7. never-never land
  8. never-nude
  9. never-nudes
  10. never-say-die
  11. never-smoker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: never-never (page history and authors); never-never (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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