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- Ernie Eco came by for supper that night before he and my father were going off somewhere to look at a new pickup that some idiot was selling for some price a whole lot less than he should be selling it for and all he wanted was a hundred-dollar down payment.†
p. 177.4down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
- You don't get a whole lot for a hundred-dollar down payment, I guess.†
p. 204.8 *
Definitions:
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(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)