DOWN PAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does down payment mean? 

• DOWN PAYMENT (noun)
  The noun DOWN PAYMENT has 1 sense:

1. a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later

  Familiarity information: DOWN PAYMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWN PAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

deposit; down payment

Hypernyms ("down payment" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "down payment"):

margin; security deposit (the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities)

 Context examples 

You may be sending a check for graduate school tuition, a student loan, or a down payment down on a house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It also rules money you owe, such as for estimated taxes, tuition, a down payment on a house, and other large checks you might write that come up occasionally.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You might pay your college tuition, a large medical or dental bill, a tax payment, a down payment for a house (or a deposit on a lease for an apartment).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your parents will support your plans too, and even if they have never helped you financially, this year you may receive part of your inheritance now to go toward the down payment, while your parents can enjoy seeing you buy the house you want.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is also possible your mother or father will give or loan you what you would need to put toward a down payment on a house or condo or for a hefty deposit on a rental.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This suggests you may have given up dining out in restaurants each week, for example, so you could accumulate enough money for a down payment on a property you want to buy or to pay for graduate school.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Those might include a check for college tuition, to invest in your business, to build a new website, to get married, to have a baby, to pay estimated tax, to put a down payment on a house, or a large deposit on a lease.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This one is no exception, and your spending seems directed toward home-related purposes or the down payment on a new house. (You will have good-fortune Jupiter in your home sector in 2021 for the first time in 12 years, so if you don’t have to move, you might want to delay that purchase until next year.) Jupiter is favorable for securing a very large space, sunny and with a view.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your parents or those you think of as parents will likely support your goals wholeheartedly, and possibly even help you financially, such as to contribute part of your down payment on a house or condo.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Sun is the natural ruler of your fourth house of home, so on Christmas, December 25, or in the days that follow until December 28, you may receive a generous cash gift from your parents that you can put toward a down payment on your first house or condo.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)