The Only Use of
down payment
in
The Fountainhead
- His voice had the quality of a down payment on terror; it was not frightened, but it held the advance echoes of the next hour to come: "Don't go, Ellsworth.†
Chpt 4.14down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
Definition:
a partial payment made at the time of purchase (the rest to be paid later)