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installment

installment

67 3.7
An episode of a story or show released one at a time
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈstɔlmənt/
  • US
translation icon : entrega
  • OK, welcome to the first installment of Reinventing the Workshop for this academic year.
  • first installment
  • next installment
  • installment of the series

So now it's time for the first ever installment of Drew's reviews.

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Examples

  • So I am here with the final installment to put all of those questions to rest.

    Unbox Therapy

  • Welcome to the second installment of Justice Now Teen Voices.

    Dr. Mayim Bialik

  • Hey guys, so this is my third installment of the face series.

  • Hi guys, welcome to the first official installment of Dear Fat Girl.

    Sarah Rae Vargas

  • Welcome to a very exciting installment of Holy.

  • So today she is being so kind and doing the second installment of the Life With Land series.

  • It's going to be the next installment of my face series, so wait for it.

  • Welcome to the next installment of Death Race.

    Death Race (2008)

  • In the first installment, this writer admitted that the Constitutional Convention originated in the Virginia legislature.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Welcome to the first installment of our new health care series, Critical Care.

Synonyms

episode
vsinstallment
728 3.0

A single show in a TV or radio series

applies to parts released separately across any serialized story or broadcast
webisode
vsinstallment
  • Texting
3 5.9

A short online video that is part of a series

covers parts released at intervals not limited to online short videos

Compounds

installment plan
  • US
4 3.2

A way to pay by making small payments over time

installment loan
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A loan you repay with regular equal payments over time

installment debt
  • Specialized
4.3

Money you pay back in regular fixed payments over time

installment rate
  • US
3.4

An amount of money you pay regularly to repay a loan or buy something

installment buying
  • US
3.1

A way to buy something by paying small amounts over time

installment credit
  • Specialized
4.4

A loan you repay in equal regular payments with interest that people often use to buy a car or furniture

Surface Forms

installment singular
installments plural
instalments plural
instalment singular

Morphology

installment = install (semi-transparent) = install + ment

Formed regularly from the verb 'install' plus '-ment'; the sense 'one part of a series' is somewhat predictable but not strictly a literal action of installing, so learners may find it only partially transparent.

Etymology

Installment comes from parts meaning in- 'in' and a root that means 'place', a sense you can see in the word station, so it originally meant something 'put in place' as one part of a larger thing. So a story installment is one episode or part 'set in place' of the whole series.