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HIRE-PURCHASE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does hire-purchase mean?

• HIRE-PURCHASE (noun)
The noun HIRE-PURCHASE has 1 sense:

1. installment plan

Familiarity information: HIRE-PURCHASE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HIRE-PURCHASE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Installment plan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

hire-purchase; never-never

Context example:

we bought a car on the never-never

Hypernyms ("hire-purchase" is a kind of...):

installment buying; installment plan; time plan (a system for paying for goods by installments)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

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