Instalment vs Installment - What's the difference?
instalment | installment |
The act of installing; installation.
(obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
a part of a broadcast or published serial.
anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
Installment is a alternative form of instalment.
As nouns the difference between instalment and installment
is that instalment is an alternative spelling of lang=en while installment is the act of installing; installation.instalment
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Usage notes
* Both spellings common in Commonwealth countries outside the UK. * US prefers installment.installment
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Alternative forms
* instalment (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)Noun
(en noun)- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
- The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.