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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 planplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HIRE-PURCHASE (noun)


Sense 1

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; 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; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


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