hire-purchase
v.
buy in installments
hire purchase
n.
(British) installment plan
Hire purchase
Hire purchase (frequently abbreviated to HP) is the legal term for a contract developed in the United Kingdom, and now found in India, Australia, New Zealand, and other
states which have adopted the
English law concept. (In North America, where the word hire most commonly refers to employment, the comparable system is called
closed-end leasing.) In cases where a buyer cannot afford to pay the asked price for an item of property as a lump sum but can afford to pay a percentage as a deposit, a hire-purchase contract allows the buyer to hire the goods for a monthly
rent. When a sum equal to the original full price plus interest has been paid in equal installments, the buyer may then exercise an option to buy the goods at a predetermined price (usually a nominal sum) or return the goods to the owner. In the United States, a hire purchase is termed an installment plan; other analogous practices are described as
closed-end leasing or
rent to own.
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hire-purchase
Noun
1. installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never"
(synonym) never-never
(hypernym) installment plan, installment buying, time plan
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
hire purchase
n.
قسط وار خريد
hire purchase
Synonyms and related words:
acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, binder, borrowing, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, cash, cash payment, catalog buying, clearance, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, cornering, debt, debt service, debtor, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, emption, financing, hire purchase plan, hitting, hitting-up, hocking, impulse buying, installment, installment buying, installment plan, interest payment, liquidation, mail-order buying, marketing, money illusion, money-raising, monthly payments, mortgaging, never-never, pawning, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pledging, prepayment, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, quarterly payments, quittance, rebuying, regular payments, remittance, repurchase, retirement, satisfaction, settlement, shopping, shopping spree, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, touching, weekly payments, window-shopping
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.