NEVER-NEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Never-Never mean? 

• NEVER-NEVER (noun)
  The noun NEVER-NEVER has 2 senses:

1. installment plan

2. the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country

  Familiarity information: NEVER-NEVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVER-NEVER (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 ("never-never" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

outback (the bush country of the interior of Australia)

Holonyms ("Never-Never" is a part of...):

Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert (general name given to all desert areas in Australia)