Word: installments
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: in
stall
ments
Definition: Plural of installment; a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals
Morphemes:
Affix: installment
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: estal
Language: fro
Decoded: estal
Meaning: fixed position
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.