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Pa and Granny would provide the down payment for the property, and Phil and Kay would assume the monthly mortgage payments as my grandparents eased into retirement.†
p. 24.1 *

down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
Fortunately, my father agreed to help us with the down payment and cosigned the loan for a house.†
p. 95.7
We paid Daddy a down payment on it and then paid him a percentage of the sales until we paid him back what it was worth when we bought it.†
p. 128.4

Definitions:

(1) (down payment)
a partial payment made at the time of purchase (the rest to be paid later)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)